of a main controller called the baseboard management controller (
BMC) and other management controllers distributed among different system modules that are referred to as "satellite" controllers. User can access IPMI functionality through the command line with the IPMItool utility either in-band or out-of-band. Additionally, user can generate an IPMI-specific trap from the web interface, or manage the server's IPMI functions from any external management solution that is IPMI v1.5 or v2.0 compliant...
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