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Chapter 1: Overview
Servers today provide the necessary resource for corporate databases, financial and
statistical analysis data, military defense networks, and much more. To act as the heart
and soul of any network, servers must be infallible or near infallible. There must be
competent management of IT resources at all times in order to keep servers and
networks running smoothly and without incident. However, most network and server
administration staff can just provide part of that support, they cannot be present 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, on a constant 365-day calendar.
To help provide a solution for constant vigilance, the server remote management card
eliminates the problem of having an administrator on call at all times. Tyan has the
entire package to manage servers and networks. This makes the Tyan solution one of
the most complete IT resource tools available.
1.1 What are SMDC?
The Tyan Server Management Daughter Card (SMDC) is a powerful, yet cost-efficient,
solution for high-end server management hardware packages. The SMDC provides
remote system monitoring and control even when the operating system is absent or
fails, and empowers server boards with advanced industry standard features. It
effectively enables IT Managers to have remote and multi-interface access to monitor,
control, and diagnosing activities.
The SMDC is powered by an intelligent controller known as the Baseboard
Management Control (BMC). The BMC is a standalone mini-CPU that runs on its own
Real Time Operating System (RTOS) to complete a variety of tasks. Backed by
Renesas reliable H8 technology, systems are consistently monitored and supported.
Unlike regular cards such as AGP cards, network cards or SCSI cards, the SMDC is
not a peripheral card that requires any hardware specific driver. As long as standby
power supports the system, the SMDC will monitor the system.
The Tyan SMDC M3291/3295 provides many diverse methods to communicate with
the hardware. There is flexibility to choose among Keyboard Controller Style (KCS),
Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) and standard IPMI-Over-LAN
communication as defined in latest IPMI 2.0 specification.
The Tyan SMDC
M3291/3295 is compatible with all IPMI-compliant software as well as with the Tyan
System Operator™ (TSO) 2.0 software package. The SMDC hardware is OS-
independent and TSO is fully compatible with all major Operating Systems.
1.2 SMDC and TSO
The TSO is software made by Tyan which acts as a front end client that provides
additional functionality for the SMDC. The SMDC and TSO offer remote management
over servers. The remote management gives the ability to monitor and control remote
resources, such as temperature monitoring, fan control, turning system on/off, or
modifying system settings remotely.