Server Management Guide

Baseboard Management Controller
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critical incidents and to undertake necessary maintenance.
Intel
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RMM4 is comprised of up to two boards – Intel
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RMM4 Lite and the optional Intel
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Dedicated
Server Management NIC (DMN).
Figure 11. Intel
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RMM4 Lite and Dedicated NIC
The Intel
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RMM4 Lite is a small board that unlocks advanced management features on the RGMII 1Gb
interface when installed on Intel
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server boards. It provides an increased level of manageability over the
basic server management available to the server board. It works as an integrated solution on your server
system. If the optional Dedicated Server Management NIC is not used then the traffic can go through the
onboard Integrated BMC-shared NIC and share network bandwidth with the host system.
The Intel
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RMM4 add-on offers convenient, remote KVM access and control through LAN or Internet. It
captures, digitizes, and compresses video and transmits it with keyboard and mouse signals to and from a
remote computer. Remote access and control software runs in the Integrated Baseboard Management
Controller, utilizing expanded capabilities enabled by the Intel
®
RMM4 hardware.
Key features of the Intel
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RMM4 add-on card are:
 KVM redirection through either the RMM4 NIC or the baseboard NIC used for management
traffic; up to two simultaneous KVM sessions.
 Media redirection – The media redirection feature is intended to allow system administrators or
users to mount a remote IDE or USB CD-ROM, floppy drive, or a USB flash disk as a remote
device to the server. Once mounted, the remote device appears just like a local device to the server,
allowing system administrators or users to install software (including operating systems), copy
files, update BIOS, and so on, or boot the server from this device.
 KVM - Automatically senses video resolution for best possible screen capture, high-performance
mouse tracking and synchronization. It allows remote viewing and configuration in pre-boot POST
and BIOS setup.
Intel
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RMM4 uses BMC’s user authorization. In order to access Intel
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RMM4 or Intel
®
RMM4 Lite,
you have to use common utilities, such as the Intel
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Deployment Assistant (IDA), SYSCFG utility or
BIOS menu to configure its IP address, username, and password before doing remote access:
 Set user’s password (other than anonymous users)
 Enable that user on BMC LAN Channel 3 (for Intel
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RMM4)