Hello, Facebook has released OpenBMC. I would call it an "IPMI server". There are free IPMI clients, but no free IPMI server implementation [1].
In my opinion this is very good news for people who have a server in a datacenter. IPMI offers out-of-band management, e.g. a serial console over ethernet. At the moment, each vendor has it's own propriatary out-of-band system, I hope this will change now. https://github.com/facebook/openbmc https://code.facebook.com/posts/1601610310055392/introducing-openbmc-an-open-software-framework-for-next-generation-system-management/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface With regards, Paul van der Vlis. [1] that's not completely true, but the people behind the only free implementation that was available, called CoreIPM, did not respond to anything. So far I know it's a dead project. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
