Talk:Intelligent Platform Management Interface

December 2008

External links to the intel webpage in the text? doesn't seem right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AriW (talk • contribs) 22:38, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Intel webpage houses the actual IPMI specification. So that link is probably legitimate. The Dell link is far more questionable.Chueleven (talk) 14:28, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Duh, I renamed the link from "Intel website" to "IPMI home website". Perhaps that makes it clear that this is the home of the IPMI standard, it just happens to be on the Intel website.Chueleven (talk) 15:55, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

July 2007

This article reads like a glossary or a technical manual not an encyclopedia article.Pcarter7 15:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

RMCP doesn't work. It redirects here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.140.89.21 (talk) 23:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

November 2009

I removed a further reading that pointed to a corporate product. While the article did provide some generic overview on IPMI, the article covered a significant portion of things specific to the product, including how to configure it using that vendor's own software. IMO it was too much like an advertisement. There are many neutral overviews of IPMI on the web that could be substituted instead.Chueleven (talk) 14:46, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Did so again with AMI and AmericanMegaTrends links.Chueleven (talk) 02:03, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

PMBus

What is the relationship between IPMB and PMBus?

This article mentions that the Intelligent Platform Management Bus/Bridge (IPMB) is an enhanced version of the I²C bus.

I see that Power Management Bus (PMBus) is based on the System Management Bus (SMBus), and the SMBus is an enhanced version of the I²C bus.

So ... is IPMB a synonym for SMBus or PMBus? Is IPMB perhaps a further enhanced version of PMBus? Or is IPMB an (incompatible) alternative to PMBus -- a system might have one or the other, but not both? Or is IPMB a separate bus from PMBus -- a system might have both on independent I²C wires? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 14:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

A question about an external link to iPhone IPMI client

We make iPhone ipmitool-like App that I would like to add to the external links section. It is basically an IPMI over LAN client for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. The main app is a commercial product but there is also a free (no advertisement) version. FreeIPMI and OpenIPMI are already listed so it seems like a reasonable thing to do (the apps are based on ipmitool). Wikipedia how-to suggests asking a question in the discussion section of the article before making any edits like this so here I am.

Can the link to the app be added to the external link section or is it inappropriate for this article?

The url is http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/ipmi-touch/

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

YellowKompressor (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not an expert on Wikipedia policy, but I believe the spirit of the rule may be broken with your link. While it is in fact free, the webpage suggests it is a trial software for the commercial version. As an example, I removed a pdf in an earlier edit of this IPMI wikipedia article. While the article did in fact contain some legitimate IPMI information, it was also filled with information for a particular vendor IPMI product. My personal feeling was that it crossed the line, and since there were many non-vendor sources of IPMI information out there, there was no need to link to the product pdf. Chueleven (talk) 01:34, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. It is better not to add it then.

(YellowKompressor (talk) 18:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC))

IPMI security vulnerabilities

By allowing OS-level security policies to be bypassed (even when the server is "off"), IPMI presents a potentially huge intrusion vector. See this article on how servers can be hacked using IPMI. noosphere 15:27, 9 June 2012 (UTC)