Most of the Serversystems have a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) integrated for maintenace and management tasks.

Typical functions are, indepentend from the running operating system:

• Shutdown and reboot
• Switch Power On and Off
• KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) redirection
• Hardware monitoring
• USB redirection, connect the local DVD Drive to the Server over a LAN connection
• and much more…

Usually, the BMC has its own LAN Interface and therefore an own IP Address.
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