How To Unlock 3 Phone Nokia. It an incredibly cool CLI tool for managing and configuring Supermicro servers, and I dive into it a little later (since it the best way to update a Supermicro BIOS). Being able to troubleshoot ssh in serial port of your box is very useful when troubleshooting system issues. especially if the box is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean (or Atlantic Ocean). Of course, in all cases, except for supplier-specific (and thus non-standard) functionality, command-line tools should provide all necessary features, and GUI tools are not necessarily necessary to get IPMI up and running. In this post you will learn how to easily update BIOS on a Supermicro card, along with another post that covers using the Emulex OneCommand plug-in for vCenter, to easily detect and update CNA firmware.IPMI cards Baseboard Management Cards (BMCs) are primitive computers that operate independently and are always ready to use as long as the server has a power source. The April 2009 edition of Linux Pro Magazine (aka Linux Magazine outside Canada and the United States) contains a decent IPMI article written by Justin Penney. They are usually based on ARM chips and run on Linux-based firmware that supports IPMI features, including monitoring, restart and reinstallation of the host server operating system. Please note that an attacker with administrative access over the network or root system on the host system can demote firmware of a Supermicro BMC to something vulnerable. I heard that Dell OpenManage package also provides some GUI IPMI tools, but I can not guarantee it since the Dell servers I used did not seem to come with OpenManage. Two channels are possible for the management: OOB (out of band) channel, ie communication via the BMC IPMI interface and the input channel, d