topic Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization in Intel vPro® Platform

Intel ME - BMC utilization

athkar — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:58:00 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to retrieve utilization statistics from Intel ME via the BMC. Is there an API or any other method to do so.?

Thank You,

Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization

JoseH_Intel — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 01:16:22 GMT

Hello athkar,

Thank you for joining the community

Since you are mentioning the BMC I can assume you have a server. Could you please tell us what server board model do you have? This is with the purpose to provide you with the most accurate answer possible

About a way to track ME usage in a server through BMC really not remembering but I will research if such thing is possible either using BMC or UEFI shell

I will look forward for your updates

Regards

Jose A.

Intel Customer Support

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Re: Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization

athkar — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:09:49 GMT

Hello Jose,

Thank you for your response

The server model is Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M2 Server with

System Board model - D3289-B

Chipset - Intel® C612

Processor - Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2640v4

I am attaching the datasheet for the server with this for reference.

Thanks and Regards,

Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization

JoseH_Intel — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:15:19 GMT

Hello athkar,

This is the BMC user guide for Intel servers. I am not sure if the BMC functionality in Fujitsu servers is similar. I could suggest you to contact Fujitsu and ask them this same question

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000026883/server-products.html

Regards

Jose A.

Intel Customer Support Technician

Re: Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization

athkar — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:11:54 GMT

Hi Jose,

Thank you for sharing the user guide. But it shows the option to get utilization information through BMC Web console. Can you please let me know of how to get utilization statistics(CPU, I/O, Disk) programmatically for intel servers via the BMC? Like how does the BMC get this utilisation statistics from Intel ME( through some API or any other method)? I'd definitely follow up with Fujitsu for the same

Thanks and Regards,

Re:Intel ME - BMC utilization

JoseH_Intel — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:06:56 GMT

Hello athkar,

Specifically for Intel servers there is a fee-based tool called Intel Server Management Software: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/server-management/intel-server-management.html It gather information from BMC and make it possible to manage multiple servers at the same time.

An alternate tool available for most OEMs is the IPMI tool: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/server/sb/g37830002_servermanagementguide_r3_1.pdf

Let me know it this helps a bit

Regards

Jose A.

Intel Customer Support