Intelligent Platform Management Interface: A set of common interfaces to computer hardware and firmware which system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. Several dozen companies support IPMI. Dell, HP, Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation announced IPMI v1.0 on 1998-09-16, v1.5 on 2001-03-01, and v2.0 on 2004-02-14.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows Vista-based computer.
• An Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)-compliant baseboard management controller (BMC) is installed on the computer.
• Under the following registry subkey, you set the NMICrashDump registry entry to 1:
  

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

• The system receives a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) that is generated for the BMC watchdog timer (WDT).

In this scenario, you expect the system to automatically restart. Instead, the system stops responding. Additionally, the IPMI driver does not save the stop event records on the BMC, and no memory dump file is generated.

Note: The NMICrashDump registry entry is an NMI switch that specifies whether the system performs standard software error-processing when a hardware error generates an NMI. When this registry entry is set to 1, the system should perform standard software error-processing. For example, the system might display a Stop error message in this situation.