VT011

The VT011 is a VadaTech Shelf Manager for AdvancedTCA systems. The VT011 provides Telco Alarm via Micro DB-15 on its front panel as well as indication for Minor/Major/Cortical alarm indication. The board can also run as a protocol analyzer to monitor, inject, capture and validate I2C traffic on the Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) on all of the I2C busses.

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) validates and displays the IPMI packets or schedules IPMI messages for injection into the shelf. The GUI application communicates with the VT011 through the Ethernet port. Each IPMI bus has a 64-byte FIFO to allow for a full IPMI packet on each I2C bus so there is no packet loss during operation. When two VT011s are in the system, they operate in redundant active/standby mode. During operation, one VT011 is active while the second one is synchronized in hot standby mode. The module is fully hot-swappable to minimize service down time.