Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often

• kvm-cli

  2 28 10.0 Python

  Commandline interface to start IPMI/OOB KVM interfaces

For fun: This actually runs the Java Applet KVM viewer on a SuperMicro X7 board: https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli/blob/master/kvm_x7.py

1. Downloads the data from the IPMI interface

2. Modifies the files to run locally

3. Writes out a Java configuration with weak security settings so that TLS works with the deprecated ciphers.

4. Fires off a socat instance to redirect the localhost ports to the remote IPMI device.

5. Starts appletviewer locally.

Great fun writing that. Thank god we decomissioned the last X7 based storage appliances a while ago...

• openbmc

  12 1,697 9.8 BitBake

  OpenBMC Distribution

  

I do development on openbmc (https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc) which is an open source bmc implantation using bitbake, primarily targeted to aspeed, and nuvoton bmc chips.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• netboot.xyz

  104 7,971 9.9 Jinja

  Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

  

For sure - we have some networks that when a host netboots it always goes to something like http://netboot.xyz with serial console by default.

My favorite is some vendors using COM1 and some using COM2 so you have no idea which it is ahead of time.

• ipmi_firmware_tools

  1 89 10.0 Python

  IPMI analysis tools

Might be worth checking out, if this improves things for you. It did for me.

Check out https://github.com/devicenull/ipmi_firmware_tools for unpacking (and repacking) the SuperMicro firmware. The developer just merged my patches making it work with some of the X8 boards.

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