TYAN AST2150 IPMI Configuration Manual

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AST2150 IPMI Configuration Guide

Version 1.1

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 MiTAC International Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of
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MiTAC International Corporation.

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any time, without notice. In no event will MiTAC be held liable for any direct or
indirect, incidental or consequential damage, loss of use, loss of data or other
malady resulting from errors or inaccuracies of information contained in this
document.

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Contents

1. IPMI OS Drivers and Open Source Software........................................ 3

1.1 Windows IPMI Driver ...........................................................................3

1.2 Open IPMI Driver on Linux...................................................................3

1.3 IPMITool and Other Open Source Software........................................ 3

2. ASTER GUI ..............................................................................................5

2.1 ASTER GUI Overview..........................................................................5

2.2 System Information ..............................................................................6

2.3 Server Health ....................................................................................... 7

2.3.1 Sensor Reading ..........................................................................8

2.3.2 Sensor Reading with Thresholds................................................9

2.3.3 Event Log ..................................................................................10

2.4 Configuration...................................................................................... 11

2.4.1 Alerts ......................................................................................... 12

2.4.2 Mouse Mode .............................................................................14

2.4.3 Network .....................................................................................15

2.4.4 SMTP ........................................................................................16

2.4.5 Users......................................................................................... 17

2.4.6 Date Time/NTP Settings ...........................................................18

2.5 Remote Control.................................................................................. 19

2.5.1 Remote Console Redirection ....................................................20

2.5.2 Remote Power Controls............................................................ 28

2.5.3 Other Controls..........................................................................29

2.6 Maintenance ......................................................................................30

3. BMC Port Number................................................................................. 33

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1. IPMI OS Drivers and Open Source Software

AST2150 firmware is full compliant with IPMI 2.0 specification. So users could use
standard IPMI driver comes from operation system distribution.

1.1 Windows IPMI Driver

AST2150 supports Intel reference driver, you can get it from

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/tools.htm.

From Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft also provide in box IPMI driver. You can

use it also.

1.2 Open IPMI Driver on Linux

AST2150 supports the Open IPMI driver in Linux Kernel. Use the following

commands to load ipmi drivers.

“modprobe ipmi_devintf”

“modprobe ipmi_si”

If you use old version Linux Kernel, you need to replace module “ipmi_si” with

“ipmi_kcs”

Note that TYAN motherboard BIOS encodes IPMI Base IO address at 0xCA2 in its
DMI table IPMI entry, any generic OS IPMI drivers should have no problem to
support it.

1.3 IPMITool and Other Open Source Software

AST2150 supports open source software IPMITool, you can also use other ones
like OpenIPMI,IPMI Util. Note that for IPMITool SOL session, user needs to use
BIOS setup menu to configure “Remote Serial Console Redirect” to use COMA, and
set baud rate to 38.4K, 8 bits, no parity, and Xon/Xoff handshaking.

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2. ASTER GUI

2.1 ASTER GUI Overview

The AST2150 has a user-friendly Graphics User Interface (GUI) called the Aster
GUI. It is designed to be easy to use. It has a low learning curve because it uses a

standard Internet browser. You can expect to be up and running in less than five
minutes.

You will be prompted to enter a user name and password. The default user name
and password are as follows:

Field Default

Username root
Password superuser

NOTE:
The default user name and password are in lower-case characters.
When you log in using the root user name and password, you have full
administrative powers. It is advised that once you log in, you change the root
password.

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2.2 System Information

This page shows system power on status and firmware revision and its release date.

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2.3 Server Health

This page contains options to show motherboard sensor readings and events. SDR,
Sensor reading, Sensor events (System event log), and PEF (Platform event filters)
are implemented in compliant with ipmi2.0 specification.

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2.3.1 Sensor Reading

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2.3.2 Sensor Reading with Thresholds

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2.3.3 Event Log

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2.4 Configuration

This page contains options to configure Alerts, Mouse mode, Network, SMTP,
Users, and Date Time NTP Settings.

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2.4.1 Alerts

This page lists configured alert destinations, use modify button to configure it, or
send a test alert to the destination.

This Modify Alert page contains drop down menu’s and fields to configure alert
types (email, SNMP traps), event severity, destination IP/Email address, and
subject etc.

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2.4.2 Mouse Mode

This configuration depends on the OS installed on Local Host. Note, it’s OS on local
host with AST2150, not the remote console.
Most modern Windows versions(2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008) and Mac OS X, use the
Absolute Mode.
Relative mode is used by most Linux distributions (SuSE, RHEL) and older
operating system like Windows 95/98.

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2.4.3 Network

Use this page to view and configure network settings.

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2.4.4 SMTP

For email alert, Enter and Save the SMTP mail server IP in this page.

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2.4.5 Users

Use this page to add, modify, and delete users. You may select “modify user” and
then change each user’s name, password, and privileges.

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2.4.6 Date Time/NTP Settings

Select options to set date/time.

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2.5 Remote Control

This page allows user to perform various remote operations such as “Console
Redirection” ， “Power Control” and “ Other Control”.

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2.5.1 Remote Console Redirection

Press “Java Console” button to invoke JViewer to start KVM-over-IP session.

For IPMI only SKU, button “Java Console” will be grayed out and make sure users
couldn’t use KVM-over-IP feature.

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Use JViewer <Video> menu to stop/restart/exit console redirect session.

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To avoid OS to intercept and interpret special key combinations, you may need to
use this drop down menu to send special Key combinations to remote OS.

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Select <Mouse sync > to allow mouse work correctly within the JViewer redirected
remote screen (in sync with remote OS). Press <alt-M> to release “mouse sync”
and return mouse control to local OS.

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Remote CDROM /Floppy redirection selection.

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Choose a local CDROM drive to redirect. Note that you need to configure “Boot
order” on remote station (via remote station BIOS Setup, after select CDROM to
redirect) before you can let the remote station to boot from the redirected CDROM .

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Select <Options> menu to configure KVM-over-IP Video engine.

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2.5.2 Remote Power Controls

Select options in this page to reset, power off, power on, or power cycle the remote
station.

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2.5.3 Other Controls

Select options in this page to chassis ID LED check, clear CMOS and local lock
panel control the remote station.

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2.6 Maintenance

Need to “Enter Update Mode” in order to flash new firmware.

Select firmware to upload and then press “update firmware” button to proceed
firmware update.

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3. BMC Port Number

This section will list a table of the BMC Port numbers.

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Web: 80, 443
KVM: 7578
CD-Media: 5120
FD-Media: 5123
SSH (Smash): 22
RMCP (IPMI): 623

BMC Port Number

UPnP: 1900

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