Supermicro Hardware
Supermicro IPMI Crash Dump Notes
X10 and later boards with >= 3.58 IPMI FW support collecting out-of-band crash dump data. You can access this page from Miscellaneous -> Troubleshooting When there is a fatal event such as IERR OR CATERR, the IPMI should collect the crash dump data ...
Supermicro 847 Chassis PDU Replacement Procedure
Please see attached document.
X11 systems with dual CPU sockets do not support 10/100Mb link speed
If you try to connect the onboard Ethernet ports of various dual CPU socket X11 based systems to a 10/100Mb port, or via a 10/100Mb cable, it will NOT negotiate and no link lights will turn on. According to Supermicro, the chipset specification ...
DMI/FRU imprinting with amidedos.exe
All of Silicon Mechanics servers are now imprinted with the Silicon Mechanics Serial number. The serial number will be on a sticker on the rear of every chassis and will look something like: SM123456 The imprinting process has only been in ...
DMI/FRU Imprinting With SUM
******Motherboard must have SUM activated.***** DMI: ./sum –i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –u ADMIN –p XXXXXX –c GetDmiInfo --file dmi_info.txt vi dmi_info.txt Under [System] edit Serial Number :wq ./sum –i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –u ADMIN –p XXXXXX –c ChangeDmiInfo ...
Establishing a Baseline for Intermittent Lockup RCA
Protocol for establishing a baseline for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of intermittent lockups on systems integrated by Silicon Mechanics: Ascertain current system IPMI firmware revision vs. latest available revision from Supermicro for the given ...