About IPMI

Oracle ILOM supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), which enables you to monitor and control your server, as well as to retrieve information about your server.

IPMI is an open, industry-standard interface that was designed for the management of server systems over a number of different types of networks. IPMI functionality includes field-replaceable unit (FRU) inventory reporting, system monitoring, logging of system events, system recovery (including system resets and power-on and power-off capabilities), and alerting.

The monitoring, logging, system recovery, and alerting functions available through IPMI provide access to the management functionality that is built into the platform hardware.