BMC Management

NVIDIA BMC is based on the OpenBMC open-software framework which builds a complete Linux image for a board management controller (BMC). It uses the Yocto project as the underlying building and distro generation framework.

The primary software components of BMC are the following:

• U-boot bootloader

• Linux kernel

• OpenBMC distro

This section consists of the following pages:

• Software Versioning

• BMC FRUs

• Product Instance Identifier

• Boot Sequence Overview

• User Management

• Network Protocol Support

• LLDP in Redfish

• Reset or Reboot BMC

• Factory Reset BMC

• CEC and BMC Firmware Operations

• BlueField BMC Redfish Triggers

• Redfish Certificate Management

• Guest Tunnel