Technical Resources

• Intel’s Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) website
  
  
• DMTF SMASH Specification website
  
  
• At the December 2005 Management Developers Conference in Santa Clara, Avocent presented 'Cost-Optimized Manageability'. The session focused on direct mapping of hardware/firmware level instrumentation to CIM classes, especially SMASH profile classes.
  
  
• At the September 2005 EMW Event in Bethesda, Avocent presented 'How the Intelligent Instrumentation of Devices with Industry Standards - like IPMI and SMASH - Leads to Greater IT Automation'.
  
  
• At the March 2005 Blade Server Summit in Santa Clara, Avocent presented 'Blade Glue: Using Embedded Standards to Make Blades Easier to Manage'.
  
  
• At the September 2004 Enterprise Management World Conference in Philadelphia, OSA discussed and demonstrated a server management (SM) command line protocol (CLP) prototype from the DMTF SMASH initiative
  
  
• At the May 2004 Microsoft WinHEC Conference in Seattle, OSA, along with Microsoft and Intel, demonstrated IPMI and WMX on an AMD System
• At the March 2004 Server Blade Summit, OSA presented 'Using IPMI to Build a Superior Blade Design'
  
  
• At the February 2004 Intel IDF Conference, OSA presented 'Design considerations for the open specifications based manageability stack: IPMI – HPI – CIM'
  
  
• At the September 2003 Intel IDF Conference, OSA presented 'IPMI Design Considerations for WBEM/CIM'
  
  
• Also, Intel presented 'Advances In Intelligent Platform Management: IPMI v2.0 Technology Preview'
  
  
• At the June 2003 DMTF Global Management Conference, OSA presented how IPMI complements WBEM/CIM technologies

• Using IPMI Platform Management in Modular Computer Systems - Intel Presentation at Intel Developer Forum, Spring 2003

• Advances in Intelligent Platform Management - Intel Presentation at Intel Developer Forum, Spring 2003

• Exploring Remote Manageability Building Blocks for Next Generation Devices - OSA Presentation at Intel Developer Forum, Spring 2003

• Intel IPMI 1.5 Presentation at Intel Developer Forum, Fall 2002

• Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Through Standard Building Blocks - An Intel and OSA Whitepaper

• CompactPCI Industry Adoption of IPMI for system management (PICMG 2.9 spec)