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 Reports on Hardware Failures