Intelligently monitor and manage your servers with a variety of Intel® server management tools and firmware to alert users of potential failures, assist in keeping firmware up to date, and monitor power and thermal conditions in the data center. Take full control of the server using a virtual keyboard, video, mouse (KVM), and virtual media redirection. A BMC is a specialized microcontroller on a server’s motherboard. It is loaded with features and north bound interfaces that allow end-users to monitor and manage servers either through management software they build on their own, existing solutions such as Intel® Data Center Manager and Intel® Server Utilities, or by third-party tools. Extensive Redfish schemas available to manage, update firmware and view asset inventory. Legacy protocols like IPMI, SNMP, SMTP are fully supported on the platform. IPMI is 2.0 compliant with several additional OEM commands included, as well.