Supermicro Intelligent Platform Management Interface Documentation

Supports Revision 1.5 and Revision 2.0

Supermicro Out of Band Software License Key

Supermicro Software is a must have license key for your server platform. The Supermicro Out of Band (OOB) makes life easier by being able to control your UEFI BIOS and BMC/IPMI on your server motherboard remotely. User can easily update firmware settings from a human-readable text file, and use this utility to update the target machine's system UEFI BIOS and BMC/IPMI configuration.

Listed below, you will find the documentation for Supermicro IPMI Software. To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to https://get.adobe.com/ua/reader/

Supermicro IPMI Documentation Supermicro IPMI Application User Guides Supermicro IPMI User's Guide Embedded Supermicro BMC/IPMI User's Guide Supermicro IPMI View User's Guide IPMIView for Android User's Guide IPMIView for iOS User's Guide SMCIPMITool User's Guide X9 SMM IPMI User's Guide   Quick Links for Important Articles Who needs IPMI? Supermicro IPMIView Sensors Supermicro IPMIView Console Redirect

On-board IPMI BMC Specification

The Supermicro platform's Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) are built on the next components:

• ASPEED AST 2500 controller for Supermicro X11
• ASPEED AST 2400 controller for Supermicro X10
• Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller for Supermicro X9
• Renesas SH7757 Controller for Supermicro X9

The AST2500 and AST2400 are designed to dedicatedly support the PCI-E x1 bus interface and communicate by I²C/SMBus.The WPCM450 communicates with onboard components via six SMBus interfaces, Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) buses, and General Purpose I/O ports.

Supermicro IPMI Utilities

The IPMI console can be accessed using Supermicro IPMI Utilities via a web browser. KVM-over-IP requires Java to run. Some motherboards additionally support access via HTML5, but without Virtual Media. Unlike other manufacturers, Supermicro provides full IPMI functionality, including a graphical console, without additional licenses. Additional licensing requires only centralized management through Supermicro Update Manager or Supermicro Server Manager.

IPMIView

Supermicro IPMIView is a proprietary GUI application witg built-in browser for companies who want to manage servers. You can easily manage Supermicro's server products with few steps. It supports standard IPMI command, KVM and Virtual Media.

IPMICFG

Supermicro IPMICFG is an in-band utility for configuring IPMI devices with command line interface providing standard IPMI and Supermicro proprietary OEM commands for BMC/FRU configuration. This CLI-based utility can be executed on UEFI, DOS, Windows, and Linux OS and does not require any additional software installation.

SMCIPMITool

Supermicro SMCIPMITool is an Out-of-Band Supermicro utility that allowing users to interface with IPMI devices via Command Line Interface. This utility provides both OS Command Line Mode and Shell Mode and can be easily integrated with existing infrastructure to connect with Supermicro BMC-controllers.

IPMI Software for Download

Read the End User Licence Agreement carefully before downloading the IPMI software. If you accept the terms, please click "Accept EULA" on a row to enable the desired download.