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	✔️
Supermicro X11	✔️

Firmware update support

Hardware	Supported
Dell M1000e	✔️
Dell iDRAC8	✔️
Dell iDRAC9	✔️
HP c7000	✔️
HP iLO2	✔️
HP iLO3	✔️
HP iLO4	✔️
HP iLO5	✔️
Supermicro X9
Supermicro X10
Supermicro X11

Configuration support

Hardware	User accounts	Syslog	NTP	Ldap	Ldap groups	BIOS	HTTPS Cert
Dell M1000e	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	-
Dell iDRAC8	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️
Dell iDRAC9	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
HP c7000	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	-
HP iLO4	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️
HP iLO5	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️
Supermicro X10	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️
Supermicro X11	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️

Debugging

export BMCLIB_LOG_LEVEL=debug for bmclib to debug log

export BMCLIB_LOG_LEVEL=trace for bmclib to trace log

export BMCLIB_TEST=1 to run on a dummy bmc (dry run).

bmc-toolbox

All of the tooling that uses bmclib is part of the bmc-toolbox

Inventory collection

dora uses bmclib to identify and inventorize assets.

Configuration

bmcbutler uses bmclib to manage configuration on BMCs.

Web API

actor uses bmclib to abstract away various BMCs and expose a consistent web API to interact with them.

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.

bmclib interfaces with Redfish with https://github.com/stmcginnis/gofish

Authors

• Juliano Martinez
• Joel Rebello
• Guilherme M. Schroeder
• Mariano Guezuraga