Christian Svensson

BMCs generally come with protocols such as IPMI, is monitored via SNMP, and uses classical password authentication. What if we consider that these rules can be bent and broken? Enter u-bmc, a spiritual adoption of LinuxBoot but for your BMC. We will look at what a normal BMC consists of and why that's a problem, what u-bmc can do to help with that, and what we can improve on in the future to help the industry move forward.

The board management computer (BMC) is a component of the modern server allowing administrators to manage the server as if they were locally present. Over the recent years this component has come to be criticized for the many security issues that have surfaced, and until recently this component has been a very black box for the end-user. In this talk, we will briefly look on what the BMC does and how we can implement these features as part of the u-root Golang userland stack.