Hello,
Facebook has released OpenBMC. I would call it an "IPMI server". There are free IPMI clients, but no free IPMI server implementation [1].
In my opinion this is very good news for people who have a server in a datacenter. IPMI offers out-of-band management, e.g. a serial console over ethernet.
At the moment, each vendor has it's own propriatary out-of-band system, I hope this will change now.
https://github.com/facebook/openbmc https://code.facebook.com/posts/1601610310055392/introducing-openbmc-an-open... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
With regards, Paul van der Vlis.
[1] that's not completely true, but the people behind the only free implementation that was available, called CoreIPM, did not respond to anything. So far I know it's a dead project.