Fujitsu IRMC S2/S3 manual Ipmi technical background Advantage, Ipmi and other management standards

IPMI - technical background

Advantage

The IPMI specifications ensure the independence of functions for inventory, logging, recovery and monitoring of a system by the system processor, BIOS or operating system.

This means that a system can still be involved in platform management when it is shut down and turned off.

IPMI and other management standards

IPMI is best used in conjunction with system management software running under the relevant operating system. Integration of the IPMI functionality into the management functionality offered by a management application and the operating system results in a powerful platform management environment.

An overview of the relationship between IPMI and the management software stack is shown by figure 2:

Figure 2: IPMI in the management software stack (source: IPMI specification, see section "References" on page 29)

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