Chapter 34. Baseboard Management

The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter provided a detailed description of the Subnet Administrator (SA). Specifically, it covered:

  • The purpose of the SA.

  • The location of the SA.

  • Requester access authorization.

  • The SA's methods and attributes.

  • The definition of a Record Identifier (RID).

  • SubnAdmGet() operation.

  • SubnAdmSet() operation.

  • The definition of a table.

  • SubnAdmConfig() operation.

  • Database queries using SubnAdmGetTable().

  • Fetching the entire database.

  • The reliable multi-packet transaction protocol.

  • Additional reference information.

This Chapter

This chapter provides an overview of Baseboard Management (BM) and a detailed description of the BM MADs exchanged between the BM and the Baseboard Management Agents (BMAs) ...

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