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 and WebUI.
Licensing: SFT-DCMS-SINGLE required for each target node.
Management
- Supports IPv4 and IPv6
- Supports up to 10,000 managed nodes in one SSM server (Linux version only)
- Manages system through IPMI/Redfish interface or SuperDoctor 5 (OS Agent)
- Updates and configures server BIOS and BMC/IPMI firmware
- Automated System BIOS/BMC FW update
- Manages Blade server through CMM
- Updates and configures Blade CMM Module firmware
- Edits DMI (SMBIOS) information
- Pushes OS Deployments without human intervention (RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, VMware ESXi)
- Mounts bootable ISO images 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
- Diagnose managed systems and get progress as well as the result on SSM Web
- TPM Provisioning/Management
- Supports staged BIOS update for X12/H12 RoT platform
- Supports seamless BIOS update for X13 platform
- Memory PFA for X13 platform
- HA (High Availability). To eliminate or minimize downtime.
- 2FA (Two-factor authentication)
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
- Monitors Liquid Cooling CDU device health and status
Service Calls (a.k.a. Call Home)
- Automated report and ticket generation from Supermicro Global Service Team (Supermicro service agreement required)
- Multi-level service calls notifications
- Monitors pre-defined critical hardware failures of fully built systems by Supermicro
- Customer defined sensor monitoring
- Enhancement relay ssm server via HTTPS service
- Licensing: Additional SFT-DCMS-SVC-KEY licenses on each target node for Service Calls function
System Requirements
Hardware
- 40.0 GB free disk space
- 4 CPU cores
- 16.0 GB available RAM (More RAM may be needed depending on the number of the managed systems.)
- An Ethernet network interface card
Operating System
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.x (64-bit), 6.x (64-bit), 7.x (64-bit), 8.x (64-bit), 9.x (64-bit)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.x (64-bit), 15.x(64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit
- Windows Server 2016 64-bit
- Windows Server 2019 64-bit
- Windows Server 2022 64-bit
Browser
- Microsoft Edge 79.x or higher version
- Firefox 68.x or higher version
- Google Chrome 75.x or higher version
Screen resolution
- 1920 x 1080 or higher resolution
System Architecture
