What is IPMI?

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What is IPMI?

  • Do servers and motherboards Supermicro have dedicated management port?

BMCs are ideal for server management and support:

  • 2D/VGA-compatible graphics
  • Multimedia virtualization and Keyboard/Video/Mouse (KVM) Redirection functions
  • Network access via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared NCSI connections

Supermicro BMC Firmware is feature-rich and supports:

  1. IPMI 2.0 based management
    • BMC stack with a full IPMI 2.0 implementation
    • Hardware health monitor
    • Remote power control
  2. Keyboard, Video & Mouse (KVM) Console Redirection with multi language support
  3. HTML5 web Console Redirection
  4. Serial over LAN (SOL)
  5. Media Redirection
    • Simultaneous floppy and CD/ DVD redirection
    • Efficient USB 2.0-based CD/DVD redirection, with typical speed greater than 15xCD
    • Support for USB key
  6. VLAN support
  7. Event Log and Alerting
  8. Read Log events
    • Full SMTP support
    • Sensor readings
    • SNMP trap
    • Email alerts
  9. Sophisticated User Management
    • IPMI based user management
    • Added security with SSL (HTTPS)
    • Multiple user permission level
    • Multiple user profiles
  10. Active Directory/LDAP Client support
    • Direct LDAP support from the device
    • Windows Active Directory and Open-LDAP
  11. Common Information Model (CIM)
    • CIM Object Manager (CIMOM)
    • True Object Manager with CIM class handling
    • Creating class, instance and working with the instances
    • Core support for all DMTF profiles
  12. SMASH and CLP support
    • SSH based SOL
    • Power control of the server
    • Support for all DMTF Profiles
    • Complete command support
  13. WSMAN Support
    • Supports WSMAN as well as WS-CIM
    • Fully organically developed code as library
    • LIGHTTPD
    • HTTP and HTTPS support
    • Complete WSMAN support - Discovery, Enumeration, Get, Put, Subscribe and Eventing
    • Rich client library support (C, Java, JavaScript)
    • Web Interface Multilanguage support
    • Full Unicode support
    • Multiple language support for multiple clients simultaneously
  14. Web based configuration
  15. Full configuration using web UI
  16. Firmware Firewall
  17. Watchdog Timer
  18. Fail-safe firmware upgrade
  19. Tools to flash firmware in DOS, Linux and Windows

Supermicro used to use standard password: ADMIN / ADMIN. Since 2019 November IPMI use BMC unique password.

We can extended features of IPMI buying:

SFT-OOB-LIC - https://www.serverparts.pl/en/sft-oob-lic-i1721

Key features :

  1. Update to the Latest BIOS via BMC / IPMI
  2. System Utilization
  3. Remote Access
  4. Supermicro Certified

The Supermicro Out of Band (OOB) makes life easier by being able to control your BIOS and BMC/IPMI on your X10 and X11 generation motherboard remotely. User can easily update BIOS and BMC/IPMI settings from a human-readable text file, and use this utility to update the target machine’s system BIOS and BMC/IPMI configuration.
With the Out of Band license key enabled (remote access), maintaining your system is so much more convenient now as users can generate event logs, TPM provisioning, mount/Unmounts ISO images, remote screenshot capture, remote keyboard operations, syslog and so much more.

The following motherboards will not be able to flash BIOS using OOB functionality:

  1. X11SAE-F, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11sae-f-i189
  2. X11SAT-F, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11sat-f-i188
  3. X11SCA-F, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11sca-f-i3412
  4. X11SRA-F, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11sra-f-i1757
  5. X11SRA-RF, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11sra-rf-i1756
  6. X11SRM-F, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11srm-f-i1755
  7. X11SRM-VF, https://www.serverparts.pl/en/x11srm-vf-i1754

Related pages:

  1. Threats Associated with Using IPMI in Publicly Accessible Networks and the Necessity of Regular Updates - IPMI Best Practices
  2. How to activate SFT-OOB-LIC? (Please input the correct product key format. Click here to return)
  3. IPMI detection in the network (nmap, IPMIView)
  4. Supermicro Management Software Licenses for IPMI (SFT-OOB-LIC & SFT-DCMS-SINGLE & SFT-SDDC-SINGLE)
  5. IPMIView for Android & IPMIView for iOS & IPMIView for Windows & IPMIView for Linux
  6. IPMI Hard Reset
  7. New unique password for IPMI - BMC Unique Password
  8. IPMI - firewall ports
  9. IPMI upgrade via WEB-GUI
  10. New versions of IPMI without the required JAVA
  11. Administrator Password IPMI seen on port 49152
  12. IPMI password reset
  13. How to activate SFT-OOB-LIC and SFT-DCMS-SINGLE JSON license on Supermicro motherboards with old BMC Web? SUM (Supermicro Update Manager)
  14. How to activate SFT-DCMS-LIC IPMI license, if SFT-OOB-LIC license is already activated and it can't be uploaded through Web GUI?
  15. How to Reset the Chassis Intrusion Sensor (Critical - Physical Security) on Supermicro
  16. What is FRU (Field Replaceable Unit)?
  17. How to edit DMI / FRU Information via IPMICFG on Supermicro?