bmclib

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bmclib - board management controller library

A library to interact with BMCs of different vendors

Data collection support

Hardware	Supported	Partially Supported
Dell M1000e	✔
Dell iDRAC8	✔
Dell iDRAC9	✔
HP c7000	✔
HP iLO3		✔
HP iLO4	✔
HP iLO5	✔
Supermicro X10	✔

Firmware update support

Hardware	Supported
Dell M1000e	✔
Dell iDRAC8
Dell iDRAC9
HP c7000	✔
HP iLO3
HP iLO4
HP iLO5
Supermicro X10

Configuration support

Hardware	User accounts	Syslog	NTP	Ldap	Ldap groups	BIOS	SSL
Dell M1000e	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	-
Dell iDRAC8	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Dell iDRAC9	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
HP c7000	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	-
HP iLO4	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
HP iLO5	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Supermicro X10	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Debugging

export DEBUG_BMCLIB=1 for bmclib to verbose log.

Acknowledgment

bmclib was originally developed for Booking.com. With approval from Booking.com, the code and specification were generalized and published as Open Source on github, for which the authors would like to express their gratitude.

Authors

• Juliano Martinez
• Joel Rebello
• Guilherme M. Schroeder