Standard Features - American Megatrends MegaRAC G2 Features

The MegaRAC G2 was a
finalist in Networld+
Interop Las Vegas
2002's Best of Interop
Awards for Network
Servers and Peripherals
The MegaRAC G2 was
an Ultimate Solution
Winner in the Ultimate
White-Box Server
category at Tech Builder
XChange in 2003
The MegaRAC G2
received 5 STARS in a
Remote Access review
by SC Magazine in 2003
www.ami.com
MegaRAC G2, G2 Lite and G3 Family

Standard Features

AMI debuts its second and third generation remote server/platform
management cards: MegaRAC
MegaRAC controllers are fully integrated PCI Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
with several advanced features for "out-of-band" server management
from remote locations over LAN and/or modem.
System Independent
• 100% OS independent
• 100% BIOS independent
• 100% hardware independent
True Out-of-Band Manageability
• Controllers do not depend on any
in-band componenets
SDK (Software Development Kit)
for Hardware Health Management
• I2C or IPMI based
• Graphical user interface
• OEM can create and flash the
image based on the hardware
• No firmware customization needed
Remote Management
• Power cycle, power up/down
• Hardware reset
• Remote BIOS setup and Microsoft
Emergency Management Service
(EMS) support via "Serial Over LAN"
Event Notification
• SNMP trap to multiple destinations
• Configurable notification scheme
• Cell phone messages via e-mail
User Managed Notification
• Applications generate notifications
• SNMP and Email support
Web-Based User Interface
• Software does not need to be
installed at the client side (only
need the web browser)
• Fast embedded web-server on the
card
Serial Port Redirection
PRELIMINARY, SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Q4 03.
G3, MegaRAC G2 Lite and MegaRAC G2.
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Event Log
• Event log stored in NVRAM,
each event has a date and
time stamp
Security
• SSL (Secured Socket Layer) v3
• DAA (Digest Access Authentica-
tion)
• User management for web
interface
• User name, password (en-
crypted)
Network Interface
• DHCP support for automatic IP
assignment
• Manually set IP address, subnet
mask and gateway setting in
case there is no DHCP server
• BOOTP support for remote
recovery console (flash the
recovery image)
Remote API
A dedicated client program
monitors and manages the card
through this API set
• Expose virtually any functions,
including monitoring
• Socket based API
Auto Discovery
Discover installed MegaRAC cards
in a workplace
• Discovery database
• Based on CURI (Common UI,
Remote access and Identifica-
tion) interface
System information
• Scheduled discovery
(AMI proprietary)
Server Management