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Method for using the client without BMC IP access

Open loth opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hello,

Is it possible to access the redfish api on the BMC directly from the OS similar to the ipmi kernel driver using the client?

loth avatar Sep 06 '24 16:09 loth

Currently, no. The Redfish Specification defined a "host interface" for the in-band replacement, but this interface only has a network option currently. Most vendors implement a USB NIC between their host and BMC to expose this function, but it's still all IP-based. SMBIOS entries are populated by UEFI/BIOS to point a user to their host interface, including the IP address of the BMC they should be using.

Much of this is documented here: https://www.dmtf.org/dsp/DSP0270

mraineri avatar Sep 06 '24 20:09 mraineri

Closing; there's no such capability in Redfish today (at least via standard methods).

mraineri avatar Aug 29 '25 19:08 mraineri