Table of Common Commands

NVIDIA BlueField BMC Software v24.04

Capability

Redfish

IPMItool

Supported in NIC Mode? [Y/N]

Changing the default BMC password

Changing default password using Redfish

N/A

Yes

Changing the default UEFI password

Changing UEFI Password

N/A

Yes

Enabling/disabling secure boot

Setting Secure Boot State

N/A

N/A

Updating BMC firmware

BMC and CEC firmware update

N/A

Yes

Updating DPU BFB

Pushing BFB from BMC to BlueField Arm

N/A

Yes

Configuring DPU to network boot from the out-of-band interface first

Boot Config Using Redfish

Boot Config Using IPMI

N/A

Resetting DPU

Reset control

Reset control

Partial

Resetting DPU BMC

Reset control using Redfish

Reset control using IPMI

Yes

Factory reset

Factory Reset Redfish Command

Factory Reset IPMI Command

Yes

Getting DPU versions

System inventory

N/A

No

Getting DPU BMC versions

Retrieving BMC version using Redfish

Retrieving BMC version using IPMI command

Yes

Getting high-speed ports MAC addresses for mapping DPUs' Ethernet devices

Chassis Card1 NetworkAdapters

List of IPMI Supported FRUs

No

DPU monitoring (SEL, FRU, etc.)

Monitoring

Monitoring

No

User management

User management Redfish commands

User management IPMI commands

Yes

Enabling secure boot with customer keys

BIOS secure boot configuration

N/A

N/A

Enabling/disabling zero-trust mode

N/A

Enable/disable RShim from Host

Yes – BlueField-3 only

Enabling RShim from DPU BMC

Enable RShim on DPU BMC

Enable RShim

Yes

Changing DPU mode

Redfish NIC Subsystem Management

Changing operation mode

Yes – BlueField-3 only

Partial BFB update (ATF/UEFI)

Deploying BlueField Software Using BFB from BMC

NA

Yes

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