2021-09-15
Bare Metal Monitoring Fails via IPMI, RMCP, BMC
BMCs are those little mini-computers in your bare-metal servers. You know, the things with the LEDs in the big cabinets that generate heat and noise. Without getting much too technical here, IPMI is the name of the interface specification and RMCP is the underlying protocol (for LAN transmission it runs on UDP, TCP's connectionless sister protocol).
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