SE7210TP1-E Datasheet, PDF (99/145 Pages) Intel Corporation – Intel® Server Board Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server Board SE7210TP1-E TPS
Platform Management Architecture
5.1.12.1
Platform Event Filtering (PEF)
The National Semiconductor PC87431 integrated management controller monitors platform
health and logs failure events into the SEL. The Platform Event Filtering feature provides a
configurable mechanism to allow events to trigger alert actions. PEF provides a flexible, general
mechanism that enables the National Semiconductor PC87431 integrated management
controller to perform selectable actions triggered by a configurable set of platform events. The
National Semiconductor PC87431 integrated management controller supports the following
IPMI PEF actions:
• Power-down
• Soft shut-down
• Power cycle
• Reset
• Diagnostic Interrupt
• Alert
In addition, the National Semiconductor PC87431 integrated management controller supports
the following OEM actions:
• Fault LED action
• Identification LED action
• Device feedback
The power-down, soft shut-down, power cycle and reset actions can be delayed by a specified
number of 100ms.
The National Semiconductor PC87431 integrated management controller maintains an Event
Filter table with 30 entries that is used to select the actions to perform. Also maintained is a
fixed/read-only Alert Policy Table entry. No alert strings are supported.
Note: All Fault/Status LED and ID LED behaviors are driven off of PEF. PEF should not be
disabled and the default entry configuration should not be modified or those behaviors will be
changed.
Each time the PEF module receives either an externally or internally generated event message, it
compares the event data against the entries in the event filter table. The National Semiconductor
PC87431 integrated management controller scans all entries in the table and determines a set of
actions to be performed. If a combination of actions is identified, such as power down, power
cycle, and/or reset actions, the action are performed according to PEF Action Priorities. Action
priorities are outlined in
Table 50.
Note: An action that has changed from delayed to non-delayed, or an action whose delay time
has been reduced has a higher priority. Each generated event is logged by SEL.
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