Supermicro

Baseboard Management Control

August 21, 2022

Hardware, Networking, Linux

Gigabyte, Supermicro, ASRockRack, BIOS

Baseboard Management Controller is implemented on “enterprise” systems and along with several satellite controllers facilitates access via a platform management system. IPMI is a set of specifications for interacting with these systems. Typically the BMC provides a web interface, but there is also ipmitool which facilitates access over an ssh server running on the BMC. There are “taps” in place to allow for serial based interaction between the BMC and the primary host metal. ...

Supermicro X10/X11 Idiosyncrasies

January 5, 2020

Hardware

Supermicro

We’d standardized on the Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F a set of deployments a while back, the last of our X10 deployments, and these boards are still kicking around with enough idiosyncrasies that it’s worth documenting. This is an uncomfortable generation of boards from Supermicro that support a lot of interesting new features, but not as easily as X11 or H11. For example you have to do most things via DOS on X10, but on X11+ and H11+ almost all hardware operations are handled via built in EFI shell. ...