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NCA-5230 User Manual
System health monitoring
The BMC implements system sensor monitoring feature. It could monitor voltage, temperature, and current of
critical components.
System Power Management
The BMC implements chassis power and resets functions for system administrators to control and manage the
system power behavior. These functions can be activated by sending the IPMI 2.0 compatible chassis commands
to the BMC over messaging interfaces. The following list summaries the supported functions.
Chassis power on
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Chassis power off
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Chassis power cycle
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Chassis power reset
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Chassis power soft
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Server's power status report
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Watchdog Timer
The BMC provides an IPMI 2.0 compatible watchdog timer which can prevent the system from system hanging.
System Event Log (SEL)
A non-volatile storage space is allocated to store system events for system status tracking.
Serial over LAN (SOL)
IPMI 2.0 SOL is implemented to redirect the system serial controller traffic over an IPMI session. System
administrators are able to establish a SOL connection with a standard IPMI client, like IPMITOOL, to remotely
interact with serial text-based interfaces such as OS command-line and serial redirected BIOS interfaces.
User Management
The BMC supports 9 IDs for IPMI user accounts. The maximum length of the username and password are 16 and
20 respectively, and the possible privilege levels are Callback, User, Operator, and Administrator. Moreover, the
account creator is allowed to enable/disable the user account at any time. If not specified, the default user
accounts are listed follows:
User Name
admin
Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Redirection
The BMC provides keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) redirection over LAN. This application is available remotely
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Password
User Access
admin
Enabled
Password can be changed
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Characteristics
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