Revision for “IPMI Security for Datacenters and Compute Clusters” created on November 7, 2014 @ 11:41:07
IPMI Security for Datacenters and Compute Clusters
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<h2>Best Practices for managing servers with IPMI</h2>
Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) with IPMI are commonly used to manage servers remotely. Almost 100% of Microway’s servers support IPMI either through a dedicated management port or a shared LAN port. As of 2012, all new products support IPMI 2.0 and encryption. A BMC provides powerful remote debugging capabilities for datacenter and HPC administrators, but may allow unauthorized access from the Internet or from within an organization. If not configured properly, an IPMI BMC may compromise the security of your machines. We recommend the following steps when using IPMI to manage your machines: <strong>Network Configuration</strong> <strong>BMC Configuration</strong> <strong>Additional Measures</strong> <em>Adapted from <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/IPMI/Best_Practices_BMC_Security.pdf" target="_blank">Supermicro IPMI Best-Practices Guide</a></em> |