The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) provides the controlling intelligence for the IPMI infrastructure.
BMC periodically monitors the environmental variables such as FAN/PSU status, temperature sensors, power status, and other environmental information. This enables system administrators to remotely monitor the device's health.
The Baseboard Management Controller found in Extreme devices implement a subset of the standard IPMI command set. It is accessible through the standard out-of-band management ports.
The BMC on Extreme devices supports access through IPMI v 1.5/2.0. However, Extreme Networks recommends using IPMI v 2.0 (using the lanplus option) for improved security.
You can use the open-source tool, ipmitool, installed on a client device on any operating system such as Linux™, Windows™, or MAC-OS™.
