On 11 March 2015 22:05:52 CET, Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> wrote:

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.