Supermicro IPMI Intelligent Management

View the Supermicro IMPI video presentation. The Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), supports the 2D/VGA-compatible Graphics Core with support of PCI interface, multimedia virtualization, and Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection (KVMR) modules. The WPCM450 Controller is ideal for server management platforms. The WPCM450 interfaces with the host system via a PCI interface to communicate with the Graphics core. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote keyboard /mouse / virtual media emulation. It also provides LPC interface to control Super IO functions. The WPCM450 is connected to the network via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared NCSI connections. The WPCM450 communicates with onboard components via six SMBus interfaces, Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) buses, and General Purpose I/O ports. WPCM450 has integrated Graphics (Matrox G200) -1600x1200, 16bpp @ 75hz (Without KVM redirection) -1280x1024, 16bpp @ 85hz -1280x1024, 32bpp @ 60hz -1024x768, 32 bpp @85Hz -16M VGA memory -Windows, Redhat, and SLES driver support.

Resources: • IPMI Firmware • IPMI FTP Site • IPMI Manual (AMI) • IPMI Manual (ATEN) • AMI Open Source • Flash Utilities • Configuration Utilities • IPMIview • IPMIview manual • SIM Cards

Firmware on the card is feature-rich:

IPMI 2.0 based management

• BMC stack with a full IPMI 2.0 implementation
• Hardware health monitor
• Remote power control

Keyboard, Video & Mouse (KVM) Console Redirection with multi language support
Serial over LAN (SOL)
Media Redirection

• Simultaneous floppy and CD/ DVD redirection
• Efficient USB 2.0-based CD/DVD redirection, with typical speed greater than 15xCD
• Support for USB key

VLAN support
Event Log and Alerting

• Read Log events
• Full SMTP support
• Sensor readings
• SNMP trap
• E-mal alerts

Sophisticated User Management

• IPMI based user management
• Added security with SSL (HTTPS)
• Multiple user permission level
• Multiple user profiles

Active Directory/LDAP Client support

• Direct LDAP support from the device
• Windows Active Directory and Open-LDAP

 Common Information Model (CIM)

• CIM Object Manager (CIMOM)
• True Object Manager with CIM class handling
• Creating class, instance and working with the instances
• Core support for all DMTF profiles

SMASH and CLP support

• SSH based SOL
• Power control of the server
• Support for all DMTF Profiles
• Complete command support

WSMAN Support

• Supports WSMAN as well as WS-CIM
• Rich SDK capability for OEM extensions
• Fully organically developed code as library
• LIGHTTPD
• HTTP and HTTPS support
• Complete WSMAN support – Discovery, Enumeration, Get, Put, Subscribe and Eventing
• Rich client library support (C, Java, JavaScript)
• Web Interface Multilanguage support
• Full Unicode support
• Multiple language support for multiple clients simultaneously

Web based configuration

• Full configuration using web UI

Firmware Firewall
Watchdog Timer
Fail-safe firmware upgrade
Tools to flash firmware in DOS, Linux and Windows