2018-09-14 –, Lightning
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.
Christian Svensson works as a site reliability engineer by day and hacks on server and network hardware by night.