What is BMC?
- Board Management Console (or Controller)
- Standard: IPMI(Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
- Different names: iDRAC(DELL), iLO(HP), iKVM, ...
Where is BMC Port?
You can find dedicated BMC port (ethernet port) on the rear side.
Examples : Dell iDRAC / HP iLO / Supermicro IPMI
How to access BMC?
BMC is set as DHCP in factory default.
If BMC is connected to DHCP server, it receives a specific IP address. Or, you can set a static IP address on the BMC via BIOS.
You can access BMC via web browser with that IP address.
Functionalties of BMC
- Remote Power On / Off / Reset
- Remote Media (iso CD image) insert
- Virtual KVM(Keboard, Video, Mouse)
- via HTML5 or
- via JAVA / C# / Mobile Applications
- Error Reporting on Hardware Failures
Architectures of BMC Management Infra
You can access BMCs of serveral servers via virtual machine in the host below.
INTERNET
External |
eno1|(firewall enabled)
+------------+------------+
| |
| HOST |
| +----------+|
| | RDP-VM ||
| |172.19.0.3||
| +----------+|
+------------+------------+
br0(eno2)|172.19.0.1
Internal |
|
Servers
(IPMI,iDRAC,iKVM../172.19.0.X)