IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter

This adapter can be accessed either in-band through a device driver, or out-band over serial or 10Mbit Ethernet.

In addition, this adapter supports chaining of IBM Servers with Advanced Systems Management Processors (ASMP) using RJ45 patch cables (RS-485 signal), to reduce the number of This is a half-length full-height PCI adapter, which can be accessed either in-band through a device driver, or out-band over serial or Ethernet.

The reason for this was to resolve some of the problems with capturing the video for the remote KVM function that the original RSA experienced.

Just like the original RSA, in the event of chaining the remote KVM function is only supported on the server with the adapter installed.

Newer servers use the cable shown in the adjacent image: This is a special version of the RSA-II that does not need a PCI slot.

Out-band management is provided by a dedicated Ethernet port on the server, which is not connected if the RSA-II Slimline is not installed.

Its function is very similar to that of the RSA-II The BCMM provides an external 10/100Mbit Ethernet connection (used for out-of-band management) and shared VGA, PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse ports.

The IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM) is the next generation of System Management devices for UEFI based servers and comprises features and functionality of the legacy Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), Remote Supervisor Adapter II (RSA II) while incorporating the Super I/O controller and Video controller.