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Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer

The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Ar- chitecture (ATCA) is a modern platform, which gains popularity, not only in telecommunication, but also in others fields like High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. Computing systems based on ATCA provide high performance and efficiency and are char- act...

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Autores principales: Kozak, T, Predki, P, Makowski, D
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1349299
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author Kozak, T
Predki, P
Makowski, D
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Predki, P
Makowski, D
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description The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Ar- chitecture (ATCA) is a modern platform, which gains popularity, not only in telecommunication, but also in others fields like High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. Computing systems based on ATCA provide high performance and efficiency and are char- acterized by significant reliability, availability and serviceability. ATCA offers these features because of an integrated manage- ment system realized by the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) implemented on dedicated Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC). IPMC is required on each ATCA board to fulfill the ATCA standard and is responsible for many vital procedures performed to support proper operation of ATCA system. It covers, among others, activation and deactivations of modules, monitoring of actual parameters or controlling fans. The commercially available IPMI implementations are expensive and often not suited to demands of specific ATCA applications and available hardware. Thus, many research centers and commercial companies decide to develop their own version of IPMC software. Despite precise IPMI specification, these implementations are often incompatible with each other, which leads to incorrect in-system behavior of devices equipped with IPMC from various vendors. ATCA specifies the I2 C protocol as a physical layer of IPMI. There are many devices able to monitor the I2 C bus such as logic analyzers or specialized oscilloscopes. However, there is no available equipment capable of debugging IPMI as a higher level protocol. The article compares available methods of IPMI debugging and describes a custom made device prepared to monitor in real-time up to eight IPMI lines and analyze the IPMI protocol. Accessibility of this kind of equipment allows to discover errors and find the reasons of faulty behavior of the IPMC under development, greatly reduce the time to market factor and decrease costs of ATCA system development.
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spelling cern-13492992019-09-30T06:29:59Z http://cds.cern.ch/record/1349299 eng Kozak, T Predki, P Makowski, D Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer Accelerators and Storage Rings 10: SC RF technology for higher intensity proton accelerators and higher energy electron linacs The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Ar- chitecture (ATCA) is a modern platform, which gains popularity, not only in telecommunication, but also in others fields like High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. Computing systems based on ATCA provide high performance and efficiency and are char- acterized by significant reliability, availability and serviceability. ATCA offers these features because of an integrated manage- ment system realized by the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) implemented on dedicated Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC). IPMC is required on each ATCA board to fulfill the ATCA standard and is responsible for many vital procedures performed to support proper operation of ATCA system. It covers, among others, activation and deactivations of modules, monitoring of actual parameters or controlling fans. The commercially available IPMI implementations are expensive and often not suited to demands of specific ATCA applications and available hardware. Thus, many research centers and commercial companies decide to develop their own version of IPMC software. Despite precise IPMI specification, these implementations are often incompatible with each other, which leads to incorrect in-system behavior of devices equipped with IPMC from various vendors. ATCA specifies the I2 C protocol as a physical layer of IPMI. There are many devices able to monitor the I2 C bus such as logic analyzers or specialized oscilloscopes. However, there is no available equipment capable of debugging IPMI as a higher level protocol. The article compares available methods of IPMI debugging and describes a custom made device prepared to monitor in real-time up to eight IPMI lines and analyze the IPMI protocol. Accessibility of this kind of equipment allows to discover errors and find the reasons of faulty behavior of the IPMC under development, greatly reduce the time to market factor and decrease costs of ATCA system development. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/227579 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Education Level info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://cds.cern.ch/record/1349299 2011
spellingShingle Accelerators and Storage Rings
10: SC RF technology for higher intensity proton accelerators and higher energy electron linacs
Kozak, T
Predki, P
Makowski, D
Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title_full Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title_fullStr Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title_full_unstemmed Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title_short Real-Time IPMI Protocol Analyzer
title_sort real-time ipmi protocol analyzer
topic Accelerators and Storage Rings
10: SC RF technology for higher intensity proton accelerators and higher energy electron linacs
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