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Supermicro Server Manager (SSM)

Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) is an all-in-one solution to manage and monitor Supermicro servers in an IT datacenter from a single console view. SSM supports REST APIs, WebUI, and CLI. Licensing: SFT-DCMS-Single required for each target node.

Management

• Manages system through BMC/IPMI or SuperDoctor 5 (OS Agent)
• Updates server BIOS and BMC/IPMI firmware and configurations
• Edits DMI (SMBIOS) information
• Pushes OS Deployments without human intervention (RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, VMware ESXi)
• Mounts bootable ISO images to for maintenance and image installations
• Exports and clears System Event Logs
• Remotely Powers on/off/reset the target systems
• Manages power policies of individual nodes
• Integrates with LDAPv3 and AD Authentications

Monitoring

• Actively monitors server hardware and service health
• Checks asset information on system components
• Checks system utilization (TAS Agent required & Only available on X10 and later generations)
• Alerts through E-mails and SNMP Traps
• Logs and reports managed nodes availability
• Monitors power usage for servers
• Initiates Remote console to target machines through VNC

Call Home

• Automated ticket generation from Supermicro Global Service Team (Supermicro service agreement required)
• Multi-level service call notifications
• Monitors pre-defined critical hardware failures of fully built systems by Supermicro
• Customer defined sensor monitoring
• Licensing: Additional SFT-DCMS-SVC-KEY licenses on each target node for Call-Home function

Plug-ins

VMware vCenter