Intel® Server Board S2600IP and Intel® Workstation Board

Platform Management Overview server platforms which are targeted for IPDCs. DCMI is an IPMI-based standard that builds upon a set of required IPMI standard commands by adding a set of DCMI-specific IPMI OEM commands. Intel

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S1400/S1600/S2400/S2600 Server Platforms will be implementing the mandatory DCMI features in the

BMC firmware (DCMI 1.1 Errata 1 compliance). Please refer to DCMI 1.1 errata 1 spec for details. Only mandatory commands will be supported. No support for optional DCMI commands. Optional power management and SEL roll over feature is not supported. DCMI Asset tag will be independent of baseboard FRU asset Tag. Please refer table DCMI Group Extension Commands for more details on

DCMI commands.

4.5.3.21 Lightweight Directory Authentication Protocol (LDAP)

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an application protocol supported by the BMC for the purpose of authentication and authorization. The BMC user connects with an LDAP server for login authentication. This is only supported for non-IPMI logins including the embedded web UI and SM-CLP.

IPMI users/passwords and sessions are not supported over LDAP.

LDAP can be configured (IP address of LDAP server, port, and so on) from the BMC’s Embedded Web UI.

LDAP authentication and authorization is supported over the any NIC configured for system management.

The BMC uses a standard Open LDAP implementation for Linux.

Only open LDAP is supported by BMC. Windows and Novel LDAP are not supported.

4.6 BMC Firmware Update

4.6.1 The BMC firmware release Number

The BMC firmware releases are numbered as follows:

AB.CD.XXX

Where:

CD is a two digit number starting with 00 for the first release. This is the number returned in minor ID in

Get Device ID response.

B is major release number (1 for the first major release typically at first production shipment).

A is point release indicator (A=0 means this is a regular official release, A=1 means this is a point release for limited distribution). A hex representation of “AB” is returned in major ID in Get Device ID response.

XXX is the build number for internal tracking. This number is returned in OEM bytes of Get Device ID response.

4.6.2 Boot Recovery Mode

The BMC’s boot block supports firmware transfer updates. The Operational Firmware Transfer mode preserves several files in the PIA Linux file system. Boot Recovery mode cannot preserve the files because it does not understand Linux file systems, and treats it as a large binary data section. This means a Boot Recovery update completely replaces the PIA with the factory default version: an empty

SEL, a default SDR, and default IPMI configuration and user settings.

Boot Recovery mode can successfully complete an update in some situations where the Operational

Firmware Transfer mode will fail. If there is an incompatibility or bug in the operational code causing it to crash or hang, only a Boot Recovery Mode Update works. Another example is if the flash layout of the sections changes across an update. Because the operational Firmware Transfer mode tries to preserve

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