System Management Software Suite

IPMI Utilities

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SUM

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SCM

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SPM

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SSM

System Management Software Suite

Optimized for Data Centers

System Management Software Suite

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Remotely manage servers deployed across globe

Manage server health, power consumption and firmware maintenance remotely using agent and agent-less mechanisms.

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Manage hardware with no impact to applications

Perform monitoring, configuration and update operations without affecting application performance or continuity using out-of-band (OOB) utilities.

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Integrate utilities easily with existing infrastructure

Server management functions can be called through utilities’ command line interface to support existing data center automated management framework. Additionally, our server management utilities provides seamless integration with Nagios, Microsoft SCOM and other industry standard plugins.

Key Features:

IPMI Utilities

IPMICFG - BMC/FRU Configuration Utility

IPMICFG Feature List

• Command Line Utility

• Set up BMC IP Address

• NM (Node Manager) 2.0 Management

• IPMI User and Configuration Management

• IPMI Sensor and Event Management

• FRU Management

SMCIPMITool - CLI Based IPMI Utility

SMCIPMITool Feature List

• Command Line Utility

• Remote IPMI Management

• Remote NM (Node Manager) 2.0 Management

• Remote IPMI Sensor and Event Management

• Remote FRU Management

• Remote IPMI User/Group Management

• Remote Blade System Management

• IPMI Firmware Upgrade

IPMIView - GUI Based IPMI Utility

IPMIView Feature List

• JAVA GUI Interface

• IPMI System Management

• KVM Console Redirection

• Text Console Redirection

• Virtual Media Management

• IPMI User/Group Management

• Trap Receiver

• Mobile Support

System Management Software Suite

SUM

: Supermicro Update Manager

SCM

: Supermicro Command Manager

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he Supermicro Update Manager (SUM) remotely updates the BIOS and system settings of SMCI X9/X10 generation based machines through OOB (Out-Of-Band) communication channels, i.e. communication through the BMC/IPMI interface. Users can remotely edit system BIOS settings from a human-readable text file, and use this utility to configure the target machine’s system BIOS configuration from such a text file. BIOS image and settings update operation is independent of system OS on the target machine and can be executed before a system OS is installed.

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he Supermicro Command Manager (SCM) is a parallel execution framework under Linux, which allow system administrator to incorporate Linux commands and execute them in parallel on multiple servers. SCM has two components i.e., server component to be installed on management server and agent installed on target nodes. Through SCM agent and server, administrator can execute commands on target operating system by nodes or by groups. SCM is designed to assist in integration with third party utilities and customization of management infrastructure. Current version of SCM has integrated Supermicro's In-band BIOS and IPMI flash utilities.

SUM Feature List

• Updates BIOS ROM

- Update/Preserve SMBIOS data, ME region, NVRAM

• Gets/Sets BIOS settings

- Current settings, default settings

• Checks HW/FW support for OOB management

• Activates product key to enable OOB BIOS management feature

SUM Server Requirements

Hardware:

- 50 MB free disk space - 128 MB available RAM - Ethernet network interface card Operating System:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Update 0 (x86_64) or later JAVA Runtime Environment:

- OPEN JDK / Oracle JRE 1.6.0 or later

Target Machine Requirements

Firmware Requirements

BMC Version

- Supermicro IPMI Firmware Revision 2.0 or later BIOS Version

- The BIOS Version 2.0 or later for selected X9 Romley servers/X10.

SCM Feature list

• Discover agents in IP range

• Execute commands in batch mode

• CLI interface allow easy integration into existing infrastructure

• Encryption based secure connection between agent and server

SCM Server Requirements

Hardware:

- x86 servers

- 25 MB free disk space - 256 MB available RAM

- Ethernet network interface cards Operating System:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x x86_64

Target Machine Requirements

Firmware Requirements

Hardware:

- Supermicro servers - 25 MB free disk space - 256 MB available RAM

- Ethernet network interface cards Operating System:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x x86_64

Figure 1: SUM flash BIOS through IPMI

System Management Software Suite

SPM

: Supermicro Power Manager

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he Supermicro Power Manager (SPM) uses IPMI interfaces and Intel Node Manager 2.0 feature to monitor CPU/Memory/System power usage, and remotely control power consumption. It controls power consumption of systems by policy-based administration. By leveraging Intel's Data Center Manager technology, SPM enables administrator to configure policies by data center, room, row, rack, target machine, or logical group defined by self. Policies can be triggered by condition of power or temperature threshold and also by time of day.

Capabilities of Intel Node Manager Technology 1.5

(Supermicro X8)

• Report system-level power consumption

• Limits power via policies defined by the IT Administrator at the system, rack, row, and room level using P and T-State controls

• Trigger and Time based Policies

• Up to 16 policies ( stored in firmware) per system

Capabilities of Intel Node Manager Technology 2.0

(Supermicro X9)

In addition to the features found in Node Manager 1.5, there are additional controls and sensors in the newer Supermicro X9 Platforms.

• Runtime Average Power Limiting (RAPL) to implement power control in CPU & Memory

• Report inlet temperature per server

• CPU Domain Power monitoring and limiting

• Memory Domain Power monitoring and limiting

• Dynamic Core Allocation (requires ACPI 4.0 compliant OS)

Figure4: SPM - Manage power across multiple clusters Figure 3: Use cases for different environments

Monitor

Control

Sustain

Optimize

View power and

temperature

usage of server

nodes

Set limits on

node power

consumption

to increase rack

density

Automatically

reduce power to

sustain operations

during power or

cooling events

Use existing power

data and apply

intelligent policies

to improve workload

System Management Software Suite

SPM Feature List

• Monitor and Control functions

-Power (System, CPU, memory, PDUs), temperature, P-States, T-States

• Configurations

-Power capping limits

-Temperature limits ( Celsius/Fahrenheit)

-Refresh periods

-Custom events

• Statistic

-Saves historical data up to 1 year

-Max, Min, average

• Notifications

-SNMP Traps

-SMTP messages

• Based on Intel Data Center Management software

-Monitor up to 5000 nodes with single DCM instance

SPM Environment Requirements

Hardware:

- 50 MB free disk space - 1024 MB available RAM - Ethernet network interface card Operating System:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x - Fedora Core 15 - CentOS 5.x - Ubuntu 11.x - Windows Server 2003 / 2003 R2 / 2008 / 2008 R2 - Windows 7 / XP JAVA: - JRE 1.6.0 or above

DCM Environment Requirements

Hardware

- A dual-core processor of 2.6 Ghz or higher - 4 GB available RAM

- 60 GB free disk space

- Ethernet network interface cards Operating System

- Windows Server 2003 R2 / 2008 / 2008 R2 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.x / 6.x - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.x / 11.X JAVA Runtime Environment

- JRE 1.6.0 or above

System Management Software Suite

SSM Feature List

• Monitoring Functions

-Host Monitoring (Agent Managed, IPMI hosts)

-Hardware Monitoring (Fan speed, temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, redundant power failure, power consumption, disk health, and memory health)

-Software Monitoring (HTTP, FTP, and SMTP services)

• Control Functions

-Remote console redirection (VNC, KVM)

-Power control and Wake-on-LAN (WOL)

• Notification Functions

-Notifications sent when Host or Service state changes

-Notifications sent via email and SNMP traps

• System Information and Report Functions

-15 System Information Types (e.x. baseboard, services, etc)

-6 Report Types (e.x. Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) Server Availability, Host Status Change, and Service Status Change)

SSM Server Environment Requirements

Hardware:

- 500 MB free disk space - 512 MB available RAM Operating System:

- Ethernet network interface card - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.x 64-bit - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.x 64-bit - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x - Windows 2003 Server R2 64-bit - Windows 2008 Server R2 64-bit Browser:

- Internet Explorer 8.x, Firefox 3.x or above

SSM Agent Requirements

Hardware:

- Supermicro servers - 200 MB free disk space - 64 MB available RAM

- Ethernet network interface cards Operating System:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.x, 6.x - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.x - Windows 2003 Server R2 - Windows 2008 Server R2 Browser:

- Internet Explorer 8.x, Firefox 3.x or above

SSM

: Supermicro Server Manager

Figure 6: Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) Dashboard

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he Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) monitors system health of hardware and services in real-time and provides alerts to administrator on availability of systems in datacenter. SSM provides monitoring through SSM agents or IPMI. SSM agents will monitor Supermicro servers’ hardware and services by agent. If the server demonstrates warnings/errors, SSM will notify by mail or SNMP traps. SSM Agent supports SNMP.

System Management Software Suite

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ystem Management Software Suite Feature Summary

Why Supermicro?

 Supermicro is a market leader in Green Computing and Server Building Block Solutions™. Our system management software ties all these building blocks together to provide

seamless management in data center operations.

 Our expertise in Enterprise IT, Cloud Computing, Hadoop/Big Data and HPC environments provides customers with highly scalable, application optimized

solutions designed to meet your most challenging business requirements. Our expanded software features are designed to streamline IT operations

with light-out management functionality for remote monitoring, controlling and maintenance.

 Every Data center is unique when it comes to its operations; Supermicro collaborates with you to integrate our system

management software into your existing infrastructure. We provide customizable functionality via individual software modules to reduce your operation overhead and the total cost of ownership.

 Supermicro is committed to rapidly address customer issues. With our integrated hardware and system management software, you can be assured that you will receive the most optimized solution and the most effective technical support.

Software IPMICFG SMCIPMITool IPMIView SUM SCM SPM _{Server / Agent}SSM

User Interface CLI CLI GUI CLI CLI GUI_CLI WebUI_CLI

Management Interface _(In-band)Local Remote _(OOB) Remote _(OOB) Remote _{(OOB) (In-band)}Remote Remote _(OOB) (In-band)Local Remote (OOB) OS Support for Manager LinuxDOS

Windows

Linux

Windows WindowsLinux Linux Linux WindowsLinux WindowsLinux

Hardware Monitoring _(IPMI)✔ _(IPMI)✔ ✔

Power Management ✔ ✔

Firmware Upgrades _{(IPMI FW)}✔ _{(IPMI FW)}✔ _(BIOS)✔ (BIOS & ✔ IPMI FW) Firmware Configuration _{(IPMI FW)}✔ _{(IPMI FW)}✔ _{(IPMI FW)}✔ _(BIOS)✔

Discovery ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Remote Power On/Off/Cycle ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Group Management ✔ ✔ _{(with script)}✔ ✔ ✔

Alert Notification ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

SKU Description

SFT-DCMS-Single Per node license for System Management Suite (All packages) SFT-DCMS-SITE Site license for individual nodes (per year)

SFT-OOB-LIC Per node license for OOB BIOS management mechanism

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Quad LAN, 10GbE, IB options

GPU/MIC Supercomputing

Multi TeraFLOPS Servers/Workstations/Blades

M KT -0 00 2-06 /2 01 3-1. 0

New!

FatTwin

™ 8/4 Nodes in 4U Front or Rear I/O

Comprehensive Server, Storage and Networking Product Lines

Optimized for Data Center, Cloud, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems

New!

72x

Ext. Hot-Swap HDDs in 4U

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