3u compactpci serial 8 port rs-232/422/485 communication card (28 pages)
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User Manual MIC-6311 OpenVPX CPU Blade with Intel® 4th Core™ Processor...
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No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Advantech Co., Ltd. Information provided in this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable. How- ever, Advantech Co., Ltd.
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Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C and D indoor hazards. Technical Support and Assistance Visit the Advantech website at http://support.advantech.com to obtain the latest information about this product. Contact your distributor, sales representative, or Advantech's customer service center for technical support should you require additional assistance.
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Before setting up the system, check that the items listed below are included and in good condition. If any item does not accord with the list, please contact your dealer immediately. MIC-6311 all-in-one single board computer (CPU heatsink and PCH heatsink included) x 1 Daughter board for SATA HDD x 1 (assembled) ...
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The sound pressure level at the operator's position according to IEC 704-1:1982 is no more than 70 dB (A). DISCLAIMER: These instructions are provided according to IEC 704-1. Advantech disclaims all responsibility for the accuracy of any statements contained herein.
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We Appreciate Your Input Please let us know whether any aspect of this product, including the manual, can benefit from improvements or corrections. We appreciate your valuable input in help- ing improve our products. MIC-6311 User Manual...
Table 1.7: SW3 Front COM and RTM COM1/COM2 Port Selec- tion for BMC/SIO UART..........10 Connector Definitions................10 Table 1.8: MIC-6311 connector descriptions......10 Figure 1.4 MIC-6311 front panel ports, indicators and buttons.. 11 Table 1.9: Front Panel LEDs ............. 11 1.6.1 USB Connectors ................. 11 1.6.2...
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Installation....................13 1.8.1 HDD Installation................13 Figure 1.5 Complete assembly of MIC-6311 with SATA HDD .. 13 Figure 1.6 Fastening screws to the SATA HDD bracket ... 14 Figure 1.7 Inserting the SATA HDD into the SATA connector .. 14 1.8.2...
Introduction Advantech’s MIC-6311 is a single processor VPX blade based on an Intel 4th gener- ation Core i3/i5/i7 platform. The MIC-6311 enables the highest possible performance in the 6U VPX form factor with two SRIOx4 ports on the VPX data plane and two PCI Express x8 2nd generation lanes in the VPX expansion plane for workstation and computation-intensive applications.
Two lanes of SRIO Gen2 x4, which offer 5G baud rates, are provided in the P1 data plane. The MIC-6311 uses two lanes of PCIe Gen2 x8 in the P2 expansion plane. Two lanes of 1GBase-T or SERDES (on request) are used for the P4 control plane.
RS232 / RS485 / RS422 modes using the onboard switch. 1.2.10 USB Ports Two USB 3.0-compliant ports with fuse protection are provided. Both ports are routed to the front panel connectors on the MIC-6311 and to the rear I/O module via a P5 connector. 1.2.11 LEDs Four LEDs are provided on the front panel as follows: ...
When configured as a sys- tem controller, the bridge acts as a standard transparent PCI Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge. The MIC-6311 receives power from the backplane and supports a rear I/O. The PLX PEX 8733 offers the following features: ...
Additional I/O or co-processing functionality is supported by add-on PMC modules. The MIC-6311 supports one PMC site that is fully compliant with the VITA 46.9 PMC/ XMC Rear I/O Fabric Signal Mapping on 3U and 6U VPX Modules Standard specifi- cation.
SATAIII, 6GB/s for 2.5” User + Reset Handle SW SSD/ SATA buttons User LEDs Figure 1.1 MIC-6311 functional block diagram Board Map The figure below shows the location of the main components, jumpers, switches and thermal sensors. MIC-6311 User Manual...
Figure 1.2 Board map Jumpers and Switches Table 1.4 and Table 1.5 list the jumper and switch functions. Read this section care- fully before changing the jumper and switch settings on your MIC-6311 board. Table 1.3: MIC-6311 Jumper Descriptions Number...
Figure 1.3 JP11 for PMC VIO (+3.3 V or +5 V) 1.5.3 Switch Settings Note! ■ represents the key. Table 1.6: FPGA_SW1 & FPGA_SW2 PCIE NT Setting NT is disabled (default) NT is port 1 NT is port 9 FPGA_SW1 FPGA_SW1 FPGA_SW1 FPGA_SW2 FPGA_SW2 FPGA_SW2 MIC-6311 User Manual...
The keys must be oriented as ON either the front panel COM, RTM COM1 or RTM COM2 are connected to the BMC. Connector Definitions Table 1.14 lists the function of each connector, and Figures 1.3 and 1.4 illustrate the location of each connector. Table 1.8: MIC-6311 connector descriptions Number Function SATA HDD daughter board XMCJ5/XMCJ6...
1.6.2 Serial Ports MIC-6311 has one serial port and two serial ports routed to P5. They function as RS- 232 interfaces via RJ-45 connectors on the front panel. A RS-422/485 mode can be selected using the switch UART_SW. An RJ-45 to DB-9 adaptor cable is provided among the MIC-6311 accessories to facilitate connectivity to external consoles or modem devices.
1.6.4 SATA Daughter Board Connector (CN7 and Extension Module) MIC-6311 provides one SATA interface for a daughter card of a SATA HDD via the CN7 connector. The SATA HDD can also function as an optional onboard HDD. Two SATA interfaces are connected to the XTM for processing additional SATA HDD requests.
1.8.1 HDD Installation MIC-6311 supports a 2.5” SATA hard disk drive. The SATA HDD daughter board is not assembled on the MIC-6311. The SATA HDD installation steps are illustrated in the following figures.
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Figure 1.6 Fastening screws to the SATA HDD bracket Place the SATA HDD with bracket on the post and insert the SATA HDD into the SATA connector. Figure 1.7 Inserting the SATA HDD into the SATA connector MIC-6311 User Manual...
PMC/XMC. Battery Replacement MIC-6311 uses a 3 V, 210 mAh battery (model number CR2032M1S8-LF). Replace- ment batteries can be purchased from Advantech. Before ordering a battery, please contact your local Advantech sales office to check availability.
Figure 2.1 Setup program initial screen BIOS Setup The MIC-6311 board features an in-built AMI BIOS and a SETUP utility that allows users to configure the required settings or activate specific system features. When the power is turned on, press the <Del> button during the BIOS POST (Power On Self-Test) to access the SETUP screen.
BIOS supporting the CPU. If no number is assigned to the patch code, please contact an Advantech application engineer to obtain an up-to-date patch code file to ensure that the CPU system status is valid. After ensuring that a number is assigned to the patch code, press <F2>...
2.3.2 Advanced BIOS Features Setup Select the Advanced tab from the MIC-6311 setup screen to enter the Advanced BIOS Setup screen. Users can select any item, such as CPU Configuration, in the left frame of the screen to access the sub menu for that item. The details of each Advanced BIOS Setup option can be displayed by using the <Arrow>...
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PCI Express Device Settings Allows users to set maximum payload/maximum read requests. 2.3.2.2 ACPI Setting Figure 2.5 ACPI settings Enable ACPI Auto Configuration Enable or disable BIOS ACPI auto configuration. The following parameter is hid- den when enabled. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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This item allows users to enable or disable Intel Hyper Threading technology. Active Processor Core This item allows users to choose the number of CPU cores to activate in each processor package. Limit CPUID Maximum This item allows users to limit the CPUID maximum value. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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T-states exist to prevent processors from burnout in the event of cooling fan fail- ure. When a temperature sensor registers that the junction temperature is reaching a level that may damage the device or its contents, the HW power MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Set to “AHCI” mode to assign SATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface. In AHCI mode, the onboard storage driver enables advanced serial ATA features that increase storage performance for random workloads by internally optimizing the command order. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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When this parameter is set to Manual, a delay of 1 to 40 sec- onds can be selected. Device Power-up Delay in Seconds The “device power-up delay in seconds” field must be enabled to set a delay of 1 to 5 seconds. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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2.3.2.6 Super IO Configuration Figure 2.9 Super IO configuration Serial Port Configuration For serial port, IRQ and I/O mode resource configuration, users can select IRQ, IO and MODE. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Figure 2.10 Serial port configuration 2.3.2.7 Serial Port Console Redirection Setting Console Redirection This item allows users to enable or disable console redirection or Microsoft Win- dows Emergency Management Services (EMS). MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Figure 2.11 Console redirection settings Terminal Type VT-UTF8 is the optimal terminal type for out-of-band management, followed by VT100+ and then VT100. MIC-6311 User Manual...
The Chipset Setup screens are shown below. The sub menus are also described in subsequent sections. 2.3.3.1 PCH-IO Configuration Figure 2.12 PCH-IO configuration 2.3.3.2 North Bridge Configuration System Agent (SA) Configuration Figure 2.13 System Agent (SA) configuration MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Enable or disable NB CRID WorkAround. NB PCIe Configuration Figure 2.14 NB PCIe configuration – PEG0 – Gen x Select PEG0 speed. – Always enabled PEG This item allows users to always enable or disable PEG. MIC-6311 User Manual...
Figure 2.15 Memory configuration DIMM Profile This item allows users to select the DIMM timing profile used. Channel A/B DIMM Control This item allows users enable or disable DIMMs on Channels A or B. 2.3.4 Boot Settings MIC-6311 User Manual...
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“OFF” the keyboard NumLock state will stay “OFF” after booting. Quiet Boot If this option is set to Disabled, the BIOS displays normal POST messages. If enabled, an OEM logo is shown instead of POST messages. MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Always: do not allow disabled GA20. Interrupt19 Capture Enable or disable this item for ROM to trap into 19. Hard Drive BBS Priorities Select the main hard disk device type to function as a boot hard drive. MIC-6311 User Manual...
Select this option and press <ENTER> to access the sub menu, then input a password. Set the Administrator password. User Password Select this option and press <ENTER> to access the sub menu, then input a password. Set the User password. MIC-6311 User Manual...
O/S Boot Watchdog Timer is disabled. OS Watchdog Timer Policy Allows users to configure the system response should the OS Boot Watchdog Timer expire. Not available if the O/S Boot Watchdog Timer is disabled. MIC-6311 User Manual...
Select this option to quit setup without making permanent changes to the sys- tem configuration. Select Exit and Discard Changes in the Exit menu and press <Enter>. The following message should appear: “Discard Changes and Exit Setup Now [Ok] [Cancel]” MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Save as User Default Save all of the current settings as a user default. Restore User Default Restore all settings to user default values. Boot Override Show the boot device types on the system. MIC-6311 User Manual...
The Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) protocol is used as IPMI system interface con- nection to the x86 part on MIC-6311. It’s based on the Low Pin Count (LPC) bus and used as the local BMC interface to BIOS and the Operating System (OS) on the Board.
3.2.3 The IPMI LAN Interface on MIC-6311 is accomplished by using a shared LAN Con- troller together with the x86 system. In addition to systems PCI-Express link, a LAN controller side-band interface (Network Controller Sideband Interface, short NC-SI) is connected to the BMC. This NC-SI channel is used by the BMC to receive and trans- mit IPMI management traffic from and to network with help of the LAN controller.
The table below lists the six sensor thresholds specified for threshold based sensors in the following sub-chapters. Table 3.2: Threshold Descriptions Threshold Description Upper Non-recoverable Upper Critical Upper Non-critical Lower Non-critical Lower Critical Lower Non-recoverable MIC-6311 User Manual...
Version Change Sensor A Version Change sensor is supported according to the IPMI specification. 3.3.4 Example Sensor Data Below example shows a MIC-6311 sensor reading list printed with the open source IPMItool: [root@localhost ~]# ipmitool sdr list MIC-6311 User Manual...
3.3.5.1 Overview The Advantech Integrity Sensor is an OEM sensor according to the SDR (Sensor Data Record) definitions in the IPMI specification. Its main purpose is to monitor inter- nal firmware states and report events to the operator that would otherwise go unno- ticed (hence “integrity sensor”).
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0x29 Flash 1 Boot Failed 0x03 0x31 3.3.5.6 Example Event Identification The Integrity Sensor is listed as last MIC-6311 sensor (verify below IPMItool exam- ple). [root@localhost ~]# ipmitool sdr elist … INTEGRITY | 10h | ns | 193.100 | Disabled As mentioned before, the Integrity Sensor does not provide a sensor reading (dis- abled), but supports event generation at any time.
(avoid if possible). Wrong FRU data content could destroy the payload functionality! 3.4.2 Example FRU Data Below example shows a default MIC-6311 FRU data excerpt (Board and Product Info areas) using the Linux “IPMItool”: OEM Commands Advantech management solutions support extended OEM IPMI command sets, based on the IPMI defined OEM/Group Network Function (NetFn) Codes 2Eh, 2Fh.
4 = Channel 2 is the only allowed port, always use it, never change to channel 1. The NC-SI LAN controller channel setting will be stored permanently (non-volatile EEPROM). The default value is 0. Read LAN channel selection priority: ipmitool raw 0x2e 0x41 0x39 0x28 0x00 0x04 0x01 MIC-6311 User Manual...
3.5.5 FPGA COM Port UART MUX MIC-6311 implements several serial interfaces, which can be configured in multiple ways. This is done by implementing an UART MUX (refer to Chapter– UART and UART Multiplexer-). The BMC provides OEM commands to configure these UARTs via IPMI.
Read Port 80 (BIOS POST Code) OEM Command To be able to read out the actual BIOS boot state via IPMI, the BMC provides an Advantech OEM command to reflect the actual BIOS POST (Port 80) code. ipmitool raw 0x2e 0x80 0x39 0x28 0x00 Response: 39 28 00 <POST Code>...
3.7.1 ACPI Featured Graceful Shutdown Note! The payload OS used with MIC-6311 needs to support ACPI to benefit from the module’s graceful shutdown feature! If there’s an shutdown request (e.g. hot swap front panel handle “open” event or IPMI command), the BMC will initiate the OS shutdown with help from the ACPI Power Button signal routed to the x86 system.
Set Watchdog Timer (IPMI 2.0 Specification 27.6) Get Watchdog Timer (IPMI 2.0 Specification 27.7) To ensure a high reliability of the MIC-6311 Payload, the BMC Watchdog is enabled by default for BIOS monitoring. The details are described in BIOS failover chapter. 3.10 Resets Several different reset types are supported by the board.
With the help of SOL, user can connect to a virtual serial console (e.g. payload x86 system) from remote. SOL can be used on MIC-6311 for serial-based OS and pre- OS communication over LAN (e.g. OS command-line interface and serial redirected BIOS menu).
Password: "advantech" 3.11.2 LAN Configuration with IPMItool The open source IPMItool utility is used in this chapter for the MIC-6311 SOL and LAN parameter configuration. Any other utility, based on standard IPMI commands, can be used as well. To get an overview of all possible commands within an IPMItool command group, please use the single keywords (e.g.
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3.11.2.3 SOL session with IPMItool Advantech recommends using IPMItool to successful open a SOL session with MIC- 6311. The “lanplus” interface (RMCP+) of IPMItool must be used to be able to change SOL parameters and establish SOL sessions. Following general IPMItool parameters are needed for RMCP+ and IPMItool “sol”...
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57.6 | 115.2 3.11.2.5 SOL Session Activation Finally, the IPMItool “sol activate” command need to be issued to establish the SOL session to MIC-6311 from remote. # ipmitool -I lanplus <IP-Address> -U <User> -P <Password> sol activate [SOL Session operational.
HPM.1 Preconditions 4.1.1 IPMItool Before upgrading, users need to prepare a HPM.1 capable update utility. Advantech recommends to use the open and verified "IPMItool" (>= version 1.8.10). In general, any tool compliant to the PICMG HPM.1 R1.0 specification can be used.
FPGA. The front panel FRU LED's 1 and 2 (green BMC and green payload LED) are flashing during the FW update activation! This procedure needs around 200 seconds to final- ize the update. MIC-6311 User Manual...
To verify successful updates, the IPMItool hpm check command can be used. [root@localhost ~]# ipmitool hpm check PICMG HPM.1 Upgrade Agent 1.0.2: -------Target Information------- Device Id : 0x21 Device Revision : 0x81 Product Id : 0x6311 Manufacturer Id : 0x2839 (Unknown (0x2839)) MIC-6311 User Manual...
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(*) Component requires Payload Cold Reset After a successful upgrade, the new backup version should be the former active ver- sion (if "Backup" versions are supported). And the new "Active" version should be the version of the used upload file. MIC-6311 User Manual...
M/D, PWR, BMC HB, and IDE/Hot-swap LEDs Name Description PWR (Green) Indicates power status BMC (Yellow) Indicates BMC status (heart beat indicates BMC is active) Yellow indicates IDE activity, blue indicates the board is HDD/Hot Swap (Yellow/Blue) ready to be hot swapped MIC-6311 User Manual...
60 OUT & H443, data REM Reset the timer 70 X=INP (& H444) REM, Disable the watchdog timer 80 END 1000 REM Subroutine #1, your application task 1070 RETURN 2000 REM Subroutine #2, your application task 2090 RETURN MIC-6311 User Manual...
Debug message: Boot time POST message FPGA I/O Registers Advantech’s MIC-6311 FPGA communicates with the main I/O spaces. The LPC unit is used to interconnect the Intel ICH9R LPC signals. The Debug Port Unit is used to decode POST codes. The Hot-Swap Out-Of-Service LED Control Unit is used to con- trol the blue LED during Hot-Insert and Hot-Remove operations.
USB 2.0/3.0 to back- Intel Lynx Point plane Audio to backplane Intel Lynx Point Front panel RJ45 Intel I350AM4 SERDES to backplane Intel I350AM4 GBE to backplane Intel I350AM4 UART to front panel Lattice LCMXO2 UART to backplane Lattice LCMXO2 MIC-6311 User Manual...
PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group Pre-boot Execution Environment RMCP Remote Management Control Protocol Rear Input/Output RS-232 An Interface specified by Electronic Industries Alliance Real Time Clock Rear Transition Module Small Form Factor Pluggable Sensor Data Record SerDes Serializer/Deserializer Serial-Over-LAN MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Serial Peripheral Interface Serial Presence Detect Software Ultra Low Voltage UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter Extension Module MIC-6311 User Manual...
Pre-memory South Bridge initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x1D – 0x2A OEM pre-memory initialization codes 0x2B Memory initialization. Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data reading 0x2C Memory initialization. Memory presence detection 0x2D Memory initialization. Programming memory timing information 0x2E Memory initialization. Configuring memory MIC-6311 User Manual...
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S3 Resume started (S3 resume PPI called by the DXE IPL) 0xE1 S3 Boot script execution 0xE2 Video repost 0xE3 OS S3 wake vector call 0xE4-0xE7 Reserved for future AMI progress codes S3 Resume Error Codes 0xE8 S3 Resume failed 0xE9 S3 Resume PPI not found MIC-6311 User Manual...
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South Bridge DXE initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x74 South Bridge DXE initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x75 South Bridge DXE initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x76 South Bridge DXE initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x77 South Bridge DXE initialization (South Bridge module-specific) 0x78 ACPI module initialization MIC-6311 User Manual...
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System reset 0xB4 USB hot plug 0xB5 PCI bus hot plug 0xB6 Clean-up of NVRAM 0xB7 Configuration Reset (reset of NVRAM settings) 0xB8 – 0xBF Reserved for future AMI codes 0xC0 – 0xCF OEM BDS initialization codes MIC-6311 User Manual...
Optional Get BT Interface Capabilities 22.10 Mandatory Get System GUID 22.14 Optional Get Channel Authentication 22.13 Optional Capabilities Get Session Challenge 22.15 Optional Activate Session 22.17 Optional Set Session Privilege Level 22.18 Optional Close Session 22.19 Optional MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Chassis Identify 28.5 Chassis Optional Set Front Panel Button 28.6 Chassis Enables Set Chassis Capabilities 28.7 Chassis Optional Set Power Restore Policy 28.8 Chassis Optional Set Power Cycle Interval 28.9 Chassis Get System Restart Cause 28.11 Chassis Optional MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Set Sensor Threshold 35.8 Optional Get Sensor Threshold 35.9 Optional Set Sensor Event Enable 35.10 Optional Get Sensor Event Enable 35.11 Optional Re-arm Sensor Events 35.12 Optional Get Sensor Event Status 35.13 Optional Get Sensor Reading 35.14 Mandatory MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Storage Optional Reserve SEL 31.4 Storage Optional Get SEL Entry 31.5 Storage Mandatory Add SEL Entry 31.6 Storage Mandatory Partial Add SEL Entry 31.7 Storage Mandatory Delete SEL Entry 31.8 Storage Optional Clear SEL 31.9 Storage Mandatory MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Transport Active datory Callback 25.10 Transport Optional Set User Callback Options 25.11 Transport Optional Get User Callback Options 25.12 Transport Optional SOL Activating 26.1 Transport Set SOL Configuration 26.2 Transport Parameters Get SOL Configuration 26.3 Transport Parameters MIC-6311 User Manual...
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Get Shelf Manager IP- 3-36 PICMG Addresses Get Shelf Power Allocation 3-85 PICMG Get Telco Alarm Capability 3-93 PICMG Set Telco Alarm State 3-94 PICMG Get Telco Alarm State 3-95 PICMG Get Telco Alarm Location 3-96 PICMG MIC-6311 User Manual...
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IPMITool The IPMITool provides an easy-to-use set of functions and commands, to access the BMC via the KCS interface within the Operating System of the MIC-6311 or via Ethernet through NC-SI from external. The IPMI Tool also supports bridged IPMI commands to access the BMC, if the carrier manager provides an IPMI-over-LAN interface.
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