https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/hardware-monitoring/ Recent content in Hardware-Monitoring on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-19-self-hosted-bmc-ipmi-monitoring-freeipmi-vs-ipmitool-vs-openbmc-guide/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-19-self-hosted-bmc-ipmi-monitoring-freeipmi-vs-ipmitool-vs-openbmc-guide/ <p>Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) provide out-of-band management for servers, enabling remote power control, hardware health monitoring, and console access independent of the host operating system. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is the standard protocol for communicating with BMCs. We compare the leading open-source tools for monitoring and managing BMC hardware.</p>