A provider for publishing Management Controller (Service Processor) information

Russell Doty rdoty at redhat.com
Wed Oct 30 13:20:52 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 13:03 +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Russell Doty <rdoty at redhat.com> [Oct 24. 2013 16:50]:
> > > 
> > > The leaf class for example iDRAC_ManagementController will inherit
> > > OOB_ManagementController, extract the related IP Address with the
> > > right IPMI command and publish this information.
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any inputs on the model we are considering? 
> > > 
> > Excellent idea. I assume that the initial implementation will be
> > targeting iDRAC. Would it make sense to structure the Provider to
> > discover and report on a general BMC?
> 
> Yes. Intel has a similar technology, called Active Management. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology.
> 
> Just like iDRAC, this also 'speaks' WS-Management.
I'm familiar with AMT, but it doesn't seem to be available on servers...
> 
> > This would seem to involve
> > reporting:
> > * BMC manufacturer, make, model, revision, and firmware level.
> > * BMC IP address
> + IP Port
> > * BMC URL
> > * And, of course, "No BMC found"...
> > 
> > What other information would be useful to know about a BMC?
> 
> Information about the protocol to interface with the BMC. I.e.
> 'WS-Management' for iDrac. Plus the protocol version.
Good point.
> 
> 
> Klaus




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