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)