iDRAC is described as 'The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) with Lifecycle Controller is embedded within every Dell EMC PowerEdge server and provides functionality that helps IT administrators deploy, update, monitor, and maintain servers out of the box' and is a server management tool in the system & hardware category. There are four alternatives to iDRAC for Self-Hosted, Linux and Windows. The best iDRAC alternative is IPMIView, which is free. Other great apps like iDRAC are OpenBMC, FreeIPMI and HP iLO.
IPMIView is a GUI-based software application that allows administrators to manage multiple target systems through BMC. IPMIView V2.0 supports Supermicro’s BMCs that adheres to either IPMI v1.5 or v2.0.
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The OpenBMC Project community is supporting an open source BMC firmware stack that will work across heterogeneous systems, including enterprise, HPC, telco, and cloud-scale data centers.
FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. The IPMI specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management and is implemented by a number vendors for system management.
Server management software that enables you to configure, monitor and update your HPE servers seamlessly, from anywhere in the world.
