Megarac Features; Server Management Without Megarac And With Megarac - American Megatrends 780 Hardware Manual

MegaRAC Features

Server Management Without MegaRAC and With
MegaRAC
Feature
Power cycle
Power off
System logs
Out-of-band
Temperature
Voltages
Fan status
Remote
management
Reset
The MegaRAC card answers a call-in from the modem
(external, Hayes-compatible, 2-wire interface with no
hardware hand-shaking implemented) or PC Card and
sends back system status and error log information. The
MegaRAC card has the following features:
•
permits resetting or power-cycling the server from a
remote console
•
dials out through a modem to a remote console,
providing the system identification (ID), status, and
error log information to the console when a failure
occurs
•
downloads code from the host server and maintains
the code in battery-backed MegaRAC SRAM (Static
Random Access Memory), and provides a unique 64-
bit hardware ID to the host server
The following table lists the capabilities the Server
Management offers without MegaRAC and with
MegaRAC.
Without MegaRAC
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
With MegaRAC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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