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.
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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 Reports on Hardware Failures
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