Intelligently monitor and manage your servers with a variety of Intel® server management tools and firmware to alert users of potential failures, assist in keeping firmware up to date, and monitor power and thermal conditions in the data center. Take full control of the server using a virtual keyboard, video, mouse (KVM), and virtual media redirection.
The Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
A BMC is a specialized microcontroller on a server’s motherboard. It is loaded with features and north bound interfaces that allow end-users to monitor and manage servers either through management software they build on their own, existing solutions such as Intel® Data Center Manager and Intel® Server Utilities, or by third-party tools.
Redfish
Extensive Redfish schemas available to manage, update firmware and view asset inventory.
IPMI/SNMP/SMTP
Legacy protocols like IPMI, SNMP, SMTP are fully supported on the platform. IPMI is 2.0 compliant with several additional OEM commands included, as well.
KVM and Virtual Media
HTML5 KVM and Virtual Media Support. Virtual Media support includes USB and ISO both from local file storage or over SMB and NFS file servers.
Advanced Debug
Autonomous Debug Log collects system information and health data at the time of a crash. System is held in reset until data that would be lost on reset can be collected.
Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM)
Manage and monitor the health, power, thermals, utilization, inventory and firmware versions of servers across your entire data center. Learn more about Intel® Data Center Manager here.
Health Monitoring
Continuously monitor server health in real-time and get alerts to act fast and reduce downtime.
Firmware Updating
Update the firmware of the BIOS, BMC, ME, and SDR components of servers easily with the click of a button.
Power and Thermal Management
Reduce data center TCO by monitoring and optimizing power consumption and thermals on the server, rack or data center levels, and by improving overall cooling, and increasing rack densities.
Asset Inventory and Layout Management
Manage the assets and layout of your entire datacenter and ensure servers of the same model are running with the same desired firmware versions.
Intel® Server Utilities
Single-server utilities for firmware updating, health log collection, and asset inventory that can be scripted to run in parallel across the entire data center.
Intel® Server Debug and Provisioning Tool (Intel® SDP Tool)
Intel® SDP Tool runs remotely over management network to update firmware, configure BMC/BIOS settings, retrieve health logs, and attach virtual media.
Update and Configuration Utilities
Utilities available for Windows, Linux and EFI shell run locally to update firmware and configure BMC/BIOS settings.
SysInfo
System Information Retrieval Utility runs in Windows, Linux or EFI and collects critical health and asset inventory for the system when debugging health issues.
SNMP-SA
Full SNMP v3 Get/Set and Traps to monitor server information and receive health alerts. MIB available to include in most popular SNMP viewers.
Intel® Server Management Tools Comparison
Intel provides a variety of tools and methods to complete similar actions but with different user experiences depending on the needs of the administrator. The following table describes each of the tools and APIs and compares their functionalities.
Intel® DCM |
Intel® SDP Tool |
Server Utilities |
Redfish |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
Interface |
GUI and APIs |
Command Line |
Command Line |
APIs |
Number of Servers |
Many |
Single |
Single |
Single |
Cost |
Free on Intel® Server Products with AXXRMM4Lite |
Requires AXXRMM4Lite for some features |
Free |
Free |
Firmware Updating |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (OFU) |
Yes |
BIOS / BMC Config |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (SysCfg) |
Yes |
Health Monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (SNMP-SA / SysInfo) |
Yes |
Alerting |
Yes |
No |
Yes (SNMP-SA) |
Yes |
Asset Inventory |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Virtual Media |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Power and Thermal Management |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
