1. Presenter : Harsha S (Dell R&D, Bangalore)

2. • IPMI stands for intelligent platform management
interface, designed by the Intel, IPMI is now at revision 2.0.
• This standard accepted by DELL, IBM, INTEL and Others
• Through IPMI can monitor and control the BMC(Board
Management Controller) and Server
• In-Band Management
• - Communication over KCS
• -Out-of-Band Management
• IPMB, ICMB, PCI SMBus, LAN, Serial/Modem

3. Management Application
Service Provider Proxy/Service Provider
IPMI Messages
IPMI I/F Channel IPMI I/F Channel
-------------In- Band (KCS) ----------------------------------------------------- Out-Of-Band ------
IPMI H/W Interface O
O
Base Board Management Controller B Out of Band :
Hardware Unit I/ Serial, Network, Modem, Chassis
F Mgmt.

4. • Keyboard controller style system
System interface (KCS)
• System Management interface Chip
Interface • Block Transfer
• SMBus system interface(SSIF)
• System interface
• IPMB
Messaging • ICMB
• LAN
Interface • Serial/Modem
• PCI SMBus

5. • Standard interface for management across vendors
• Serial Over Lan (SOL). This is a method to redirect
Features serial connections over an Ethernet cable.
• Remote Management from LAN
of • OS-independent management
• Monitor Sensors, Sel(System event logs), FRU and etc.
• PEF(Platform Event Filtering)
IPMITool • Users, privileges and Authentication
• OEM Management
• Off-the-shelf software is available

6. Feature Use Cases
• Power Management of the server
• Monitoring SEL for the Platform issues
• PET (Platform Event Trap)
• OEM Command Support
• Set Boot Options
• Debug windows OS Kernel
• Communicate to BMC even if the Server is OFF
• Secured Login with RMCP+/RAKP

7. • Monitor the power statistics of the
server
• Clear the power readings
• Monitor the individual power supply
Power ratings
management • Monitoring the power consumption
• Monitoring the power history
• Monitor and control the power
budgeting
• Monitor and control power capping

8. System event logging(SEL) with OEM information
• System event logs
• OEM decoding from the log
• Sensor verification by event
[root@lcg0954 ~]# ipmitool sel list
1 | 06/11/2008 | 22:34:44 | Event Logging Disabled #0x72 | Log area reset/cleared | Asserted
5 | Pre-Init Time-stamp | Add-in Card #0x56 | Install Error
b | 08/21/2008 | 15:04:44 | Temperature #0x08 | Lower Non-critical going low
c | 08/21/2008 | 15:04:44 | Temperature #0x08 | Lower Non-critical going high
d | 04/20/2010 | 17:29:35 | OS Boot | C: boot completed | Asserted
f | 04/20/2010 | 17:29:35 | OEM record dc | 000137 | 003be4cd4b00
10 | 04/20/2010 | 17:47:05 | OS Boot | C: boot completed | Asserted
11 | 04/20/2010 | 17:47:05 | OEM record dc | 000137 | 0053e8cd4b00
12 | 04/20/2010 | 17:52:20 | OS Stop/Shutdown | OS graceful shutdown | Asserted
17 | 04/21/2010 | 16:51:41 | OEM record dd | 000137 | 00ff00050000
18 | 04/22/2010 | 05:24:14 | OS Boot | C: boot completed | Asserted
19 | 04/22/2010 | 05:24:14 | OEM record dc | 000137 | 003addcf4b00
1a | 04/22/2010 | 06:06:26 | OS Stop/Shutdown | OS graceful shutdown | Asserted
1b | 04/22/2010 | 06:06:26 | OEM record dd | 000137 | 00ff00050000
1c | 04/21/2010 | 19:15:25 | OS Stop/Shutdown | OS graceful shutdown | Asserted
1d | 04/21/2010 | 19:15:25 | OEM record dd | 000137 | 00ff00050000
1e | 08/23/2010 | 17:02:56 | OS Boot | C: boot completed | Asserted

9. List Sensor information
• List all the sensor present in the Server
• Sensor readings with threshold values
[root@lcg0954 ~]# ipmitool sensor
CPU Temp 1 | 35.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | na | 76.000 | 78.000 | 80.000
CPU Temp 4 | na | degrees C | na | na | na | na | 76.000 | 78.000 | 80.000
Sys Temp | 31.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na | na | 76.000 | 78.000 | 80.000
CPU1 Vcore | 1.184 | Volts | ok | 0.680 | 0.688 | 0.696 | 1.624 | 1.632 | 1.640
CPU2 Vcore | 1.192 | Volts | ok | 0.680 | 0.688 | 0.696 | 1.624 | 1.632 | 1.640
3.3V | 3.264 | Volts | ok | 2.912 | 2.928 | 2.944 | 3.648 | 3.664 | 3.680
5V | 4.920 | Volts | ok | 4.416 | 4.440 | 4.464 | 5.520 | 5.544 | 5.568
12V | 11.712 | Volts | ok | 10.464 | 10.560 | 10.656 | 13.344 | 13.440 | 13.536
1.5V | 1.488 | Volts | ok | 1.296 | 1.312 | 1.328 | 1.664 | 1.680 | 1.696
5VSB | 4.896 | Volts | ok | 4.416 | 4.440 | 4.464 | 5.520 | 5.544 | 5.568
VBAT | 3.280 | Volts | ok | 2.912 | 2.928 | 2.944 | 3.648 | 3.664 | 3.680
Fan1 | 10500.000 | RPM | ok | 200.000 | 300.000 | 400.000 | na | na | na
Fan2 | 8700.000 | RPM | ok | 200.000 | 300.000 | 400.000 | na | na | na
Power Supply | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na | na | na | na | na
CPU0 Internal E | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na | na | na | na | na
Thermal Trip0 | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na | na | na | na | na
Thermal Trip1 | 0x0 | discrete | 0x0000| na | na | na | na | na | na

10. Windows OS • Remote debugging of the Windows Server
kernel
Kernel • Remotely monitor the Windows boot
debugging process
using IPMITool • Real-time Windows Driver debugging
Remote Machine With
IPMITOOL
Serial Data to winDBG
Netw Tool
Server OS.
ork
LAN Port
WinDBG/KD Running
BMC Controller

11. SECURITY •
•
Define Users
Define privileges
(IPMI •
•
Encrypt communication with BMC
Version 2.0: RMCP/RMCP+: based on RAKP
messages (HMAC like protocol)
2.0) • Serial-Over-Lan is encrypted with RMCP+ only

12. Dell supported commands
•Powermonitor
•MAC
•Sel
•Windbg
•vFlash
•LCD

13. IPV6 Support
• The current support for the IPMITool is
restricted to the IPV4 address
communication for the out-of-band. Our
plans are there to support he IPV6 protocol
as well. Development is in progress..
• This would be the major contribution to
the open source community as support for
the IPV6 Protocol.

14. Ipmi specification
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/index.h
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Open source link to ipmitool
http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/
IPMI Tool Mailing list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinf
o/ipmitool-devel

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