Intel® Software Network

Managed node

• OEM servers with Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager 1.5, with IPMI interfaces implemented and exposed over LAN.
• Platform BMC enabled with IPMI 2.0 over LAN
• The BMC user through which Intel® Data Center Manager communicates with nodes must have the ADMIN privilege level. The node must be configured to allow the ADMIN role to use at least one of the cipher suite levels 0-3.
• For thermal monitoring, the platform must support inlet temperature sensors. These sensors must be exposed via either Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager 1.5 or IPMI 2.0 over LAN.
• Exclusive access to manage a node. Intel® DCM does not recognize policies set on managed nodes from different source.

Operating system of management server

• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 R2 x86 Edition
• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition
• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 x86 Edition
• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 x64 Edition
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5 (EL5) Server x86 Edition
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5 (EL5) Server x64 Edition
• Novell* SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) x86 Edition
• Novell* SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) x64 Edition

Management server run-time

For best performance, install the Intel® DCM server on a system with at least:

• A dual-core processor of 2.6Ghz or higher
• 4GB RAM
• 60GB of hard drive space

Automatically installed by Intel® Data Center Manager:

• Sun Microsystems* Java Runtime Environment* 6
• Apache* Tomcat* application server
• Apache Axis2* web service engine
• PostgreSQL 8.3 Database