GSM (GIGABYTE Server

Management) Introduction

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GSM Family
 GSM Server
 Collects node hardware information via BMC (AMI / Vertiv /
OpenBMC).
 Provides deploy functions (update/…) to one node or a group.
 Remote access of nodes
 Supports Linux / Windows
 GSM Agent
 Collects node information (CPU / Memory / HDD/ PCIe devices etc.)
on operating system side.
 Share information with BMC locally.
 Support Linux /Windows
 GSM CLI
 Command line tool.

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GSM Family
 GSM DCIM
 Rack/Device layout in Datacenter view
 GSM VMware vCenter Plugin
 Provides hardware information on VMware vCenter Web Client.
 Supports the latest VMware HTML5 version.
 GSM PODM
 Intel RSD POD GUI management
 GSM Mobile
 iOS and Android mobile device application

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GSM Family

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GSM Scenario

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GSM Server – Dashboard

Current status
of all nodes

The power consumption (now and

yesterday) of top 3 nodes

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GSM Server – Main Screen Main Function Bar

Sub Menu

Node List Filter

Keyword Search

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GSM Server – Main Screen

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GSM Server – System Manager
 Information
 FRU (Board Information)
 Hardware (CPU/DIMM/HDD)
 Software (BMC/BIOS version)
 BIOS Info (SMBIOS)

 Monitoring
 SDR List
 Sensor Monitor (History)

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GSM Server – System Manager
 Remote Access
 Power Control
 Identify LED
 Launch iKVM
 Reboot BMC
 BMC Account Configuration
 …
 Network Configuration
 IPv4/IPv6 Setting

 Event Log
 SEL data

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GSM Server – System Manager
 Alert Management
 SNMP Trap Setting
 Platform Events Filters
 Update
 BMC/BIOS/CPLD update
 GSM Agent update
 Power Consumption
 Power Limit Setting
 History
 Software
 GSM Agent Information

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GSM Server – Group Manager

Switch to Group
Manager

Node information
of group

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GSM Server – Group Manager
 Update
 Update BMC/BIOS to Group
 Multi-file for different models

 Power Consumption
 Create policy for total power
 Current power consumption
information of every node

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GSM Server – Alert

Alert numbers in
real-time

Non-health event
will be listed

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GSM Server – Account

Account list

Define permissions for

different role levels

Integrate LDAP
authentication

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GSM Server – Preferences
 IP Range
 IP Search Range
 Event Log
 GSM event log
 User Action history
 Alert Management
 SNMP Trap forwarding
 SMTP notification
 Database
 Database backup/restore
 Properties
 Node update period
 Log file keeping
 Gbt Interactive Utility
 Command line tool
 Update
 GSM Server update
 Reset to default
 Language
 English / Traditional Chinese

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GSM Agent – Main Screen
Main Function Bar

System information
from OS side

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GSM Agent – CPU
 Displays CPU / cores idle and usage information

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GSM Agent – Memory
 Display Memory, Virtual Memory and Huge Pages usage
status.

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GSM Agent – NIC / OS / PCI
 Network configuration
 System information
 OS, CPU, Memory, Hostname, BMC Version and BMC IP.

 PCI devices

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GSM Agent – HDD SMART and RAID
 SMART /RAID information
 All information shared with BMC periodically

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GSM Plugin – Bind GSM Server

New tab after GSM Plugin

installed

Bind GSM Server location

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GSM Plugin – Search ESXi Server

ESXi host IP related to

BMC IP

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GSM Plugin – Get data from GSM Server
 Get hardware information in web client directly

New tab for GSM

information

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GSM DCIM – Room Layout
 Add a datacenter

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GSM DCIM – Rack Layout
 Add Rack
 Rack layout and information

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GSM DCIM – Model List
 Add device front/rear photos by model

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GSM DCIM – Device List
 Scan devices by GSM Server
 Get device information from specific GSM Server

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GSM DCIM – Rack Information
 Rack information w/ device status

Capacity
information

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GSM PODM – RSD Architecture

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GSM PODM – Software Architecture
 GUI for composing logical nodes from pool
 Communicate with POD Manager via restful API

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GSM PODM – Dashboard
 Pool Usage
 RSD Status
 Node Status
 Summary

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GSM PODM- Compose Node

Create a new
node step by step

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GSM PODM – Node Information
 Control Node
 Node Status
 Information

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GSM PODM – Resource Information
 Computer
 Network
 Storage
 RMM

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GSM Mobile
 iOS version
 https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/
gsm-mobile/id1179278423?mt=8

 Android version
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/
details?id=com.gigabyte.bnss

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