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  • Page 1 AOC-SIMSO-HTC AOC-SIMLC-HTC USER’S MANUAL Revision 1.0...
  • Page 2 Clara County in the State of California, USA. The State of California, County of Santa Clara shall be the exclusive venue for the resolution of any such disputes. Supermicro's total liability for all claims will not exceed the price paid for the hardware product.

  • Page 3: Manual Organization

    About This Manual This manual is written for system integrators, PC technicians and knowledgeable PC users who intend to integrate Supermicro’s unique IPMI 2.0 Management Utility into their systems. It provides detailed information for the application and use of the AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC that supports remote access for system monitoring, diagnosis and management.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Features of IPMI Version 2.0 Software ............1-1 Contacting Supermicro ..................1-2 Hardware Product Features ................1-3 The AOC-SIMSO-HTC: .................. 1-3 The AOC-SIMLC-HTC: ..................1-3 Checklist ......................1-3 Chapter 2 Technical Specifications and Hardware Installation The Configuration ..................2-1 Front Components ..................2-1 2.2.1 SIMSO-HTC Front Component and LED Descriptions .....
  • Page 5 System Event Log ..................3-23 Sensors ......................3-25 BMC Setting (Administrator only) ..............3-27 3-10 Users ......................3-29 3-11 Text Console Redirection (SOL, Serial Over LAN) ........3-31 Chapter 4 Troubleshooting Frequently Asked Questions ................4-1 Contacting Supermicro’s Technical Support ........... 4-1...
  • Page 6 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Notes...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Overview The AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC is a highly efficient, highly compatible and easy-to-use IPMI card that allows the user to take advantage of the BMC, a base- board management controller installed on a server motherboard and the IPMIView, an IPMI compliant management application software loaded in a PC, to provide serial links between the main processor and other system components, allowing for network interfacing via remote access.

  • Page 8: Contacting Supermicro

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Contacting Supermicro Headquarters Address: Super Micro Computer, Inc. 980 Rock Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A. Tel: +1 (408) 503-8000 Fax: +1 (408) 503-8008 Email: marketing@supermicro.com (General Information) support@supermicro.com (Technical Support) Web Site: www.supermicro.com Europe Address: Super Micro Computer B.V.

  • Page 9: Hardware Product Features

    HTC). Note: The graphics shown in this user’s guide were based on the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing of this guide. The AOC-SIMLC-HTC or AOC-SIMSO-HTC card you’ve received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this user’s guide.
  • Page 10 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Notes...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Technical Specifications And Hardware Installation

    Chapter 2: Installation Chapter 2 Technical Specifications and Hardware Installation The Configuration The AOC-SIMSO-HTC card shares LAN1 on the motherboard for IPMI traffic. Front Components 2.2.1 SIMSO-HTC Figure 1-1 AOC-SIMSO-HTC image Heart LED Reset LED BMC Chip Renesas SIMSO-HTC Figure 1-2 AOC-SIMSO-HTC layout...

  • Page 12: Simso-Htc Front Component And Led Descriptions

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual SIMSO-HTC Front Component and LED Descriptions #1. Renesas H8S BMC Chip #2. Activity LED #3. Processor Reset LED 2.2.2 SIMLC-HTC Figure 1-3 AOC-SIMLC-HTC image Renasas SIMLC-HTC Figure 1-4 AOC-SIMLC-HTC layout SIMLC-HTC Front Component and LED Descriptions #1. Renesas H8S BMC Chip #2.

  • Page 13: Led Descriptions And Pin Definitions

    The LED will blink for a fraction of a second when the BMC card is reset. You can see this LED flash when you plug the power cable in. Block Diagram UART Interface (SOL) Supermicro Featured GPIO RENESAS H8S LPC Interface SMDATA SMCLK SMALT#...

  • Page 14: Installation

    Use only the correct type of bracket for the add-on card. • Disconnect the power cable before removing any cable from the add-on card. • Make sure that the AOC-SIMLC-HTC/AOC-SIMSO-HTC add-on card is securely seated in the SIMSO/ SIMLC slot to prevent damage to the system due to short circuit.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Software Application And Usage

    LAN. The necessary utilities for the access and configuration of the add-on card are included on the Supermicro bootable CDs that came with your card. This section provides information on the configuration and the access of the IPMI card on the network.

  • Page 16: Bmc Firmware Update

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual BMC Firmware Update Shut down the system and unplug the AC power cord. Insert the BMC card. A: If you use a supplied CD-ROM, follow the steps below: • Turn on your computer and put the IPMI CD into the CD-ROM drive.
  • Page 17 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Step 2. Type yes and hit <enter> and the installer will automatically flash the IPMI card (a screen as shown below will appear). Step 3. After flashing is finished, you will see a DOS prompt and you can also configure your IPMI card using the ipmicfg utility.
  • Page 18 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Step 4. If you choose to manually flash the firmware, you will see the following screen appear. After flashing the firmware you will see a DOS prompt. On this prompt you can configure your IPMI card using the ipmicfg utility. Please see usage below in section 4.1.
  • Page 19 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 3. B: If you wish to use a floppy to flash your IPMI card, please complete the following steps: Step 1. Place the CD in your computer (Windows should have been installed). If you have autorun enabled, you will see the following screen (see below). Otherwise double click on the CD-ROM icon in your ‘My computer’...
  • Page 20 Note: When plugging or unplugging a BMC card, you must first unplug the AC power cord. IPMICFG usage: IPMICFG Version 1.06 (Build 070824) Copyright 2007 SuperMicro Computer Inc. Usage: IPMICFG params (Example: IPMICFG -m 192.168.1.123) Show IP and MAC -m IP Set IP (format: ###.###.###.###)

  • Page 21: Overview Of Ipmi View

    ASF (Alert Standard Forum) protocol. If the managed system is protected by a firewall, UDP port 623 must be opened. In Supermicro’s IPMI solution, a BMC shares the LAN1 NIC on the mainboard. The NIC will re-route the IPMI packet to the BMC instead of forwarding it to the upper layer network protocol stacks (as other protocol packets do).
  • Page 22 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual i) For Windows: Select “Install IPMIView” from auto-run windows to install IPMIView. You may also select IPMIView20setupwin32.exe” in the “IPMI SOLUTION/Windows/ Administrator” directory. ii) For Linux: Select “IPMIView20setuplinux.bin” in the “IPMI SOLUTION/Linux/Ad- ministrator” directory. iii) IPMIView installation steps:...
  • Page 23 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Figure 3: Step 3 Figure 4: Step 4...
  • Page 24 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 5: Step 5 Figure 6: Step 6 3-10...

  • Page 25: System Management

    Status Area: Shows messages regarding current status. • System View Sessions: IPMI View may manage up to 20 systems at the same time. The current managed system is indicated in the System View window. • Logo: Press Logo to visit Supermicro’s web site. 3-11...
  • Page 26 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 2-2 Step 1. As shown in Figure 2-3, click “File>New…>System” to add a new system to IPMI View. An “Add a new system…” dialog box will pop up as shown in Figure 2-4. Figure 2-3 3-12...
  • Page 27 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Figure 2-4 Step 2. As shown in Figure 2-4, in the “Add a new system” dialog box, type in the desired System Name for the managed system and the correct IP address, as well as a description. Then click OK. Figure 2-5 Step 3.
  • Page 28 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 2-6 Step 4. As shown in Figure 2-6, IPMI View includes a function that allows the user to collect candidate system information in order to build their information into a System List (see Figure 2-6). User may specify the IP range to search any possible system that has either IPMI 1.5 or IPMI 2.0 capability.
  • Page 29 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Figure 2-7 Step 5. As shown in Figure 2-7, Reload Configuration From the pull-down menu, click “File>Reload Configuration” to load the previous saved configuration. Save Configuration From the pull-down menu, click “File>Save Configuration” to save the current IPMI View configuration.
  • Page 30 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 2-8 Step 6. As shown in Figure 2-8, Modify System Select a system in the System Window you want to modify and then click “Edit>Modify…>System” from the pull-down menu shown in Figure 2-7 to modify You can also right click on a system in the System Window, and then select “Modify”...
  • Page 31 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Delete Group Select a group in the Group Window you want to delete and then click “Edit>Delete… >Group” from the pull-down menu shown in Figure 2-7 to delete it. You can also right click on a group in the Group Window, and then select ”Delete” in the pop-up menu to delete it.

  • Page 32: Login

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Or - right click on the system in the System Window you want to close and select “Close Session” in the pop-up menu to close it. When closing a session, a session will not be closed until 1) replies have been received for all outstanding packets or 2) all outstanding packets have timed out.
  • Page 33 Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Figure 3-0 Note: The default Login ID is “ADMIN”,,which has the default password of “ADMIN”. Both the Login ID and Password are case-sensitive. In the IPMI design, an MD5 algorithm will encrypt the password when it is transmit- ted through the network.

  • Page 34: Ipm Device

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 3-1 Note: In order to reduce overhead on the managed system, all pages will not refresh automatically. The user must refresh manually as needed. IPM Device Figure 3-2 3-20...

  • Page 35: Graceful Shutdown

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Clicking the IPM Device tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 3-2) will display some information and functions of the system’s BMC firmware. Device Information This shows the revision levels of the BMC and IPMI firmware. ACPI System Power State This shows the managed system’s power state.
  • Page 36 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual The Power Cycle function will shut down the managed system for a few seconds and then power up the system. Graceful power control will send an event to the System Event Log (next section). If no more memory space is left for the incoming event, graceful power control will not function.

  • Page 37: System Event Log

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting System Event Log Figure 3-3 Clicking on the Event Log tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 3-3) gives you detailed information on the System Event Log for the BMC. It shows the System Event Log version, number of log entries, free space for the System Event Log and the times of recently added and recently erased System Event Logs.
  • Page 38 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Timestamp The time the event happened. Sensor Type This could be health sensors or a system event. Event Type The event description. Because the BMC communicates with the NIC on the mainboard via a slow channel, requesting only the events you need to see is recommended. Choosing “all” to get hundreds of event entries will result in a very long delay.

  • Page 39: Sensors

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Sensors Figure 3-4 Clicking on the Sensors tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 3-4) provides you with detailed information on the sensors monitored by the BMC. It shows the reading of supported voltages and fan speeds and temperatures monitored by the BMC.
  • Page 40 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Hide Inactive Item IPMI View gets predefined sensor information from the mainboard. Some items may be not installed for different configurations. For example, there will be no CPU fan if using a passive CPU heat sink, and only one CPU on a dual CPU mainboard that has only a single CPU installed.

  • Page 41: Bmc Setting (Administrator Only)

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting Figure 3-6 BMC Setting (Administrator only) Figure 3-7 3-27...
  • Page 42 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Clicking on the BMC Setting tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 3-7) gives you detailed information on the BMC LAN Configuration, SNMP trap configuration and serial communication port of the BMC.

  • Page 43: 3-10 Users

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting text field and the IP address and MAC address in the SNMP Trap Receivers table in the SNMP group, and then click the Update button. The SNMP Trap may have multiple destinations. When any critical error occurs, an SNMP trap packet will be sent to all receivers in the list.
  • Page 44 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Figure 3-8 The user can find useful information about the board and product, such as the serial number, part number and part name of the board and product. 3-30...

  • Page 45: Text Console Redirection (Sol, Serial Over Lan)

    Chapter 3: Troubleshooting 3-11 Text Console Redirection (SOL, Serial Over LAN) Figure 3-9 On the Text Console tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 3-9), there is a function for you to remotely control the managed system in a text mode console.

  • Page 46: For Linux

    AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual For Windows 2003: Enable Console Redirection in BIOS, and set it to COM 2 (or COM B) Modify boot.ini in C:\. Boot.ini is a hidden file. Below is an example of boot.ini [boot loader] redirect=com2 redirectbaudrate=19200 timeout=30 default=multi(0)di sk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)parti tion(1)\WINDOWS=”Windows Server 2003, Standard”...

  • Page 47: Chapter 4 Troubleshooting

    IPMI card? Answer: No driver installation is required on your host which has an IPMI card. Contacting Supermicro’s Technical Support If you still have problems after trying out all the recommended solutions, please contact our technical support @ (408) 503-8000 or visit our web site @ www.
  • Page 48 AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC User’s Manual Notes...

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