What if you run your application workloads on a dedicated server in a data center and the server is suddenly offline? What if you need to remotely access your server, as administrator, to reboot or reinstall your server?
Leaseweb Customer Portal (GUI/API) offers built-in standard management actions.
And if you want more, your can opt to connect to the server hardware own built-in management features, through a special management interface, also known as DELL iDRAC, HPE iLO, or more generic, the IPMI.
Leaseweb Remote Management provides you with the option to securely connect ‘out-of-band’ to the management interface of your server, also know as IPMI. Through the IPMI you can use built-in administrator actions. For this you establish first a secure OpenVPN connection and then you can remotely access the IPMI of your server. So you can actively poll the IPMI for information.
The Leaseweb Remote Management network is an out-of-band and secure internal network. Unless you actively established a secure OpenVPN connection, there is no communication possible with the outside world, like the internet. So, without OpenVPN, an automatic push message from the IPMI to your own online monitoring system will not be possible due to this security policy.
What if you like to access IPMI without setting up an out-of-band connection?
The short answer is, use so called in-band IPMI.
In-band IPMI is based on specific drivers (sometimes already available in the OS kernel) that can retrieve IPMI information and serve it to your application of choice. For example, popular methods include using IPMI Exporter with Prometheus or Grafana. Another popular method is ipmitool with Icinga (Nagios). And there are more in-band IPMI tools out there.
Whether you use out-of-band IPMI or in-band IPMI, you can remotely access, manage and monitor your dedicated server from the comfort of your own desk.
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Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
Operating System (OS)