Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) Console

Overview

Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) is a powerful software solution designed to help organizations manage their data centers with greater efficiency and sustainability. Whether you are responsible for infrastructure management or IT operations, Intel® DCM provides you with the tools to optimize performance, reduce operating costs, and manage your Data Center carbon footprint.

By leveraging real-time data collection, predictive analytics, and advanced reporting features, Intel® DCM enables you to make data-driven decisions that improve the sustainability, reliability, and availability of your critical data center infrastructure. With Intel® DCM, you can achieve your sustainability goals while maximizing operational efficiency and minimizing environmental footprint.

Intel® DCM Console can be used for free with Intel® Server Products that include the AXXRMM4Lite remote management module, and also includes a 7-day trial license for use with other devices.

To upgrade from previous versions of Intel® DCM to version 5.2 or later, you need to replace your existing license with a new one that includes newly introduced support details. To do so, please follow the instructions below:

1. Contact us at dcmsales@intel.com with your Request ID of your Intel DCM instance from the “About” Page.
2. Our team will promptly contact you with a new license file accordingly.
3. Import the new license file from the Intel DCM “About” Page. Refer to the Intel® DCM user guide for more detailed instructions.

For any questions or assistance required during the upgrade process, contact our dedicated support team at dcmsales@intel.com.

What’s new in version 5.2 (June 2023)

New features:

• Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) calculation
• What-If server consolidation analysis
• What-If carbon calculator
• Carbon emission factor pre-configuration using data from Wattime.org
• Comparing carbon emission at different times
• IT energy efficiency calculation
• Renewable energy estimation
• Managing devices using IPv6
• Displaying passive instance details in active instances
• Using non-privileged accounts for device management

New device support:

• Intel D50DNP servers
• Advantech* SKY-8201S servers
• Moonshot* CMM 1.0/2.0 with SSH
• DIGITALFREAKS* PDU DPDUv2

Usability and security improvements:

• Support RHEL* 9.1
• Usability Improvements
• Third-party component updates
• Security Enhancements
• Upgradable from version 4.1 and above

What’s new in version 5.1

• What-If Carbon Emission analysis for server replacement
• Device level Carbon Emission report
• API for Carbon Emission
• API for Low Utilization Servers
• Scalability - Support 40k devices
• Advanced Provisioning for Intel Servers
• Support CoolIT* CHx40 CDU
• Support SSD through RAID controller
• Support HP* chassis / blades through OneView
• Support Dell* iDRAC servers that without Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager
• Support Cisco* device with UCS Manager 4.2(1i)
• Support PLANET* AGS-6336-8P2SV Managed Switch
• Updated third-party components
• Usability Improvements
• Security Enhancements
• Upgradable from 4.0 and above

What’s new in version 5.0.1

• Updated third-party components
• Security Enhancements

What’s new in version 5.0

• Carbon Emission calculation, report, projection, threshold, and alert
• Scalability - Support 20k Redfish based devices
• Vendor based discovery / add / import
• Support SDPTool v4.1 with CUP
• Provisioning API
• Historical Power Status API
• Support Moonshot chassis
• Support contact sensor with Raritan* PX2-2475 PDU
• Support ZTE* R5300 server's disk info
• Support Ubuntu* Server 22
• Usability Improvements
• Security enhancements

What’s new in version 4.1.1

• Intel® Data Center Manager Console 4.1.1 has been updated to use Spring Framework* version 5.2.20 and OpenJDK* 17.0.2. Customers should update to the latest version as it becomes available.

What’s new in version 4.1

• Discover and model GPU (experimental)
• Support HP Synergy chassis
• Support Brocade* fiber switch with RX/TX power level threshold
• Support Huawei* storage devices
• Support Dell 15G servers
• Support additional Cisco network devices
• Allow extending metrics for PCC telemetry data
• Support report for max power
• Support report scope filter based on custom attribute
• Support linking from third-party software to UI pages in DCM
• Support Windows Server* 2022
• Support Debian 11*
• Usability Improvements
• Security enhancements

What’s new in version 4.0.1

• Intel® Data Center Manager Console 4.0.1 has been updated to use Log4j* version 2.17.

What’s new in version 4.0

• Warranty expiration notification
• Offline mode for devices
• Support firmware version for hard disk and host NIC on Intel servers
• Mount ISO image for HP / Dell / Lenovo* servers
• Detect new firmware for Intel servers
• Update firmware, change BIOS settings, mount ISO for Intel servers through Redfish*
• Redfish based firmware update for HP / Dell servers
• Support additional component inventory / health for H3C* and Netapp* storage
• Support Intel Whitley servers
• Manage Dell iDRAC 7 / Cisco servers through Redfish
• Manage Oracle* servers through SSH protocol
• Manage Gigabyte* blade chassis through IPMI protocol
• Support Enlogic* PDU
• Support EMC Connectrix* DS4100B switch
• Support Cisco ASA 5525 firewall
• Mapping between switch port and managed devices
• Auto login to server BMC to simplify accessing KVM (experimental)
• Enhanced report (group scope, capacity report, CSV support, etc.)
• Event Statistic
• High Availability through DB replication and manual failover
• API enhancement (capacity and utilization data for space / power / weight, get device location)
• Monitor switch port utilization with threshold-based notification
• Support “IPMI Dump” as part of the diagnostic tools
• Usability Improvements
• Security enhancements

What’s new in version 3.9.1

• Updated third-party components to address newly identified CVEs.

What’s new in version 3.9

• Network port status monitor and change alert
• Hard power off single server
• Health monitor with component instance level details
• Match keywords in device SEL log
• Consolidated firmware inventory
• Batch provisioning task sequences for Intel Purley servers
• Support additional inventory for Intel Purley servers: Backplane
• Restore BIOS settings to default for Intel Purley servers
• Redfish*-based firmware update for SMC Purley* servers
• Health monitoring for additional network / storage devices: F5* switch, NetApp* storage, Arista* switches, Mellanox* switches, H3C* switches
• Component firmware version distribution and outlier (BIOS, PSU, Backplane)
• Reports support
• Archive events
• Enhanced RESTful API (link devices to discovery task, custom attributes management)
• Device diagnostics (SNMP walk, IPMI Ping, Redfish* dump and export DCM server logs)
• Usability Improvements
• Security enhancements

System requirements:

Intel® DCM Console has been validated on the following web browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox* 113
• Google Chrome* 113
• Microsoft Edge* 113

It is recommended that Intel® DCM Console is installed on a system with at least the following specifications:

• A dual-core processor of 2.6 GHz or higher
• 8 GB RAM
• 200 GB of hard drive space

Below is recommended configuration for a scaled environment (e.g. managing up to 40,000 IPMI based nodes):

• 2 * Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 CPU @ 2.60GHz
• 64 GB RAM
• 1000 GB SSD
• Gigabit network