Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual page 63

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o Monitoring and alerting for chassis environmental conditions or component health
thresholds. This includes but is not limited to the following:
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o I/O fabric consistency
o Consolidated Status Reporting & Event Logs
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o Consolidated Chassis/Blade/IO Inventory
―Virtual Server Reseat‖ simulates blade removal/insertion
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o Remotely blink LEDs to Identify Components
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Updating
o Reporting of Firmware versions
o 1:Many iDRAC Firmware update
o Consolidated CMC and iKVM F/W update
o 1:Many update of drivers & Firmware via Remote File Share (w/ Repository Manager)
o 2 x 10/100/1000Mb Ethernet ports + 1 serial port
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Real Time Power/Thermal Monitoring and Management
o Consolidated Chassis/Blade Power Reporting
o Power budget management and allocation
o Real Time System AC Power Consumption with reset-able peak and minimum values
o System level power limiting and slot based power prioritization
o Manages Dynamic Power Engagement functionality
o Manages fan speed control
o Power sequencing of modules in conjunction with the defined chassis power states
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Separate management network
o Configuration of the embedded management switch, which facilitates external access
to manageable modules
o Provides connection from management network to iDRAC on each of the blades and
the management interfaces on the integrated I/O Modules
o 2nd Ethernet port supports daisy chaining of CMCs for improved cable management
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Security
o Local Authentication &/or AD Integration
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o Supports multiple levels of user roles and permissions for control of chassis, IO, &/or
server blades, including Microsoft Active Directory
o IPv6 Support
o VLAN tagging for iDRAC, CMC, and IOMs
o Two Factor Authentication w/ SmartCard
o Single Sign On using OS credentials (with AD)
o Private Key Authentication (PK Auth)
o Secure Web (SSL) and CLI (Telnet/SSH) interfaces
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Support for Industry-Standard Interfaces
o SMASH CLP
o WSMAN
o CIM XML
PowerEdge M1000e Technical Guide
Real time power consumption
Power supplies
Fans
Power allocation
Temperature
CMC redundancy
Email & SNMP alerting
Support for Remote Syslog
Blade Events displayed in CMC
OpenLDAP coming in CMC 3.0
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