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         Intel(R) Server Platform Integrated BMC Firmware Release Notes
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INTEL Enterprise Platform & Services Marketing
Intel Corporation
2111 N.E. 25th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA

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DATE:       April 17, 2009

TO:         Intel(R) Server Platform S5500BC customers

SUBJECT:    Integrated BMC(R) firmware 00.36 release notes

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                               LEGAL INFORMATION
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Copyright (c) 2009 Intel Corporation.

A portion of this firmware is open source code, which falls under the
GPL 2.0 license.  

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                            ABOUT THIS RELEASE PACKAGE
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REVISION INFORMATION RETURNED BY GET DEVICE ID COMMAND:
Operational mode:   00.36
UBoot mode:	    00.16
Device ID:	    0x21
Manufacturer ID:    0x000157
Product ID:         0x003E

Other version/revision information:
Root/OS/WWW:        9.18 (AMI core version)
FWPIAUPD:           4.0.2 Build 5
Release Notes:      00.36 rev 1.0

Checksum information:
UBoot
  Region:       0x0000000 - 0x0040000
  32bit CRC:	0xC205A3DE

Entire BMC_0036.ima image including UBoot, params, operating system, root,
WWW and CIM data
  Region:       0x0000000 - 0x1000000
  32bit CRC:    0x04C74551

Source control baselines:
  IBMC_CORE_SRC_R0036 (Core)
  IBMC_THURLEY_R0036  (Platform)

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	     SYSTEM HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS/REVISIONS
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Product       Fab Version     BIOS    FRUDSR  NIC_EEPROM  ME FW
 S5500BC       Fab1-4          R0036   Latest  1.1         01.01.00.004.0

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                         IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES
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- The following update process must be followed to ensure a trouble free updating
  of your baseboard.
	1.BMC firmware to 00.36 or later
	2.BIOS R0036 or later
	3.Manageability Engine (ME) firmware 01.10 or later
	4.Latest FRU/SDR package specific to the baseboard.

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                            INSTALLATION PROCEDURE 
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1. Copy the entire contents of the BMC_0036.zip archive file to the storage 
   medium of your choice. This can be a hard disk, floppy disk or USB
   flash drive.
   All of the files in the zip archive must reside in the same directory.

2. Boot to EFI and then run the startup.nsh script file to update the
   Integrated BMC and Intel Remote Management Module 3 firmware.

   Using fwpiaupd.efi with your own command line parameters is not supported
   and doing so is at your own risk!

3. Power off the system and cycle AC power


4. Install latest available FRU/SDR package.

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                           KNOWN ISSUES/WORKAROUNDS
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- For the IOH thermal margin sensor to work properly you will need the following:
	∙ Silver or later baseboard (Has B3 or later stepping of the IOH silicon)
	∙ BIOS R0028 (or later)
	∙ BMC 00.31 (or later)

- Users of the KVM feature will need to update their client Java JRE to version
  1.6 (JRE 6) or later otherwise the KVM redirection application will not launch.
  The latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) update can be downloaded from here:
  http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

- BMC FW rev 00.36 does contain support for the Node Manager (NM) feature but
  you will also need to install the Management Engine (ME) firmware which the 
  01.05 version is available in the BIOS R0024 and later ROM file or it can
  be installed using the 01.10 ME firmware update package.

  The ME firmware is not available in the *.cap BIOS capsule file.
  You should also ensure that your power distribution board (PDB) and power
  supplies have the latest firmware if your are planning on testing the NM 
  feature.

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                           ISSUES FIXED
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00.36
- : RMM3 does not support user blocking from failed login attempts
- : RMM2 Remote Console supported international keyboards
- : ACPI S0 state not being indicated correctly
- : System fans boosting twice
- : Changes Power State Retention to "Stay Off"
- : Open TCP/IP ports on BMC
- : Systems with static IPs are not able to ping after disable VLAN
- : Systems on a same VLAN ID are not able to ping
- : VLAN gets disabled only after BMC coldreset
- : Fans boost while reading the sensor event log from the web server
- : Fan Boosts for no reason
- : Cannot change the password for the anonymous user
- : Cannot redirect USB flash device to a RHEL 5.x server
- : Fan Speed Control Hysteresis used inapproperately
- : Restore Configuration command causes IPMI LAN channels to become non-functional
- : Email alerting does not happen when the SEL is full
- : EWS Sensor list is blank when use 800x600 screen resolution under BMC00.29

00.35
- : Running InitAgent causes double events in SEL 
- : "Get SM signal" command to revert the power/reset button fails 
- : Incorrect completion code for "Set SOL Configuration Parameters" command  
- : Changes Power State Retention to "Stay Off" 
- : RMM3 KVM-Using RHEL server & client can only redirect USB device once
- : RMM3 KVM:  cannot redirect USB devices from RHEL client to Windows Server
- : Fans boost intermittently when system is reset using a Ctrl-Alt-Del
- : DIMM Temp Sensor Erratta - FW Impacted
- : EWS Sensor Readings information cannot display normal with IE6 and IE7
	browser while setting the display size to 800x600 pixels.
- : Sometimes memory thermal margin sensors event logged when power cycle using EWS
- : Datacenter Manager cannot talk to the BMC with BMC34 or BMC33 installed
- : The frame of EWS pages doesn't adapt itself to the windows under different
	screen resolution
- : EWS Sensor list is blank when use 800x600 screen resolution under BMC00.29
- : The frame of EWS pages doesn't adapt itself to the windows under Mozilla Firefox 3



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                           FEATURES ADDED
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00.36
- ECR_1825: Fix GetAdvancedSupport response -- LDAP is advanced feature now
- ECR_1840: VLAN Support from AMI

00.35:
- FW_ECR_1814: Web Console - fix the jitter in the REFRESH horizontal menu button 
- FW_ECR_1816: Web Console - fix HTML ID reference in impl/header_imp.js 



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