The advanced management module is a hot-swap module that you use to configure and manage all installed BladeCenter components. The BladeCenter S chassis comes with one advanced management module in the advanced management module bay.
The advanced management module provides
systems-management functions and keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) multiplexing for
all blade servers in the BladeCenter S chassis that
support KVM. It controls the following connections:
- A serial port for a local connection to another computer, such as a notebook computer
- The external video and USB connections for keyboard and mouse
- A 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connection
The advanced management module communicates with the service processor (also called the baseboard management controller, or BMC) in each blade server to support features such as blade server power-on requests, error and event reporting, KVM requests, and requests to use the BladeCenter S chassis shared media tray.
The BladeCenter S chassis supports a single advanced management module, and it must be installed in the advanced management module bay.