Software Setup; Mmc Firmware; Related Documentation - Kontron AdvancedMC AM4211 User Manual

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5. Software Setup

5.1

The Module Management Controller (MMC) is a crucial component of any AMC module. Besides acting as a

regular IPMI management controller (sensor monitoring, event generation, etc.), it also provides an

interface to all necessary data related to module power requirements and implemented interfaces (E-

Keying). Further, it plays an active role in the module hot swap state management. The carrier IPMI

Controller (IPMC) communicates with the MMC using the local IPMB (IPMB-L) bus. In an ATCA/AMC

environment, it is the IPMC that actually turns on/off module (payload) power. However, before the IPMC

enables the module payload power, various criteria must be satisfied by both the carrier and the module,

including handle switch state, power requirements and capabilities, matching interfaces, current module hot

swap state, and any other special conditions as specified by the Shelf Manager policy.

5.1.1

IPMI specifications: (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm)

•IPMI-Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification. Second Generation v2.0, February 12,

2004 (part)

•IPMI- Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition v1.0, Document Revision 1.1,

September 1999

PICMG specifications:

http://www.picmg.org

•PICMG® AMC.0 R2.0 - Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification

•PICMG® AMC.1 R1.0 - PCI Express and Advanced Switching on AdvancedMC

•PICMG® AMC.2 R1.0 – AMC Gigabit Ethernet/10 Gigabit XAUI Ethernet

Open tools documentation

•Ipmitool documentation:

•OpenIPMI documentation:

The AM4211 is built in accordance to the AMC.0 R2.0 specification, and is also AMC.1 and AMC.2 compliant

and is easily managed via IPMI v1.5/v2.0.

http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net

http://www.openipmi.sourceforge.net

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