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**NOTICE:** This project is long-since obsoleted. I never did complete it, and ended up just buying some IPMI-capable motherboards. I would receommend the various Pi-KVM solutions now available as much better, more robust replacements to this project.
IPMI BMCs are pretty ubiquitous in the datacenter and enterprise computing, because in a warehouse full of computers, finding and walking up to one just to reset it or check its console is quite daunting. The same goes for a home server: it may just be in my basement, but in a closed-up rack it becomes a huge hassle to manage a machine without IPMI. I try to get it on every motherboard I buy, but currently my Ceph nodes are running with motherboards that lack built-in IPMI. After an incident with one machine while I was on vacation, I finally decided that they needed remote management, and I decided to make my own BMC for them rather than waste money on replacement (IPMI-capable) motherboards. IPMI BMCs are pretty ubiquitous in the datacenter and enterprise computing, because in a warehouse full of computers, finding and walking up to one just to reset it or check its console is quite daunting. The same goes for a home server: it may just be in my basement, but in a closed-up rack it becomes a huge hassle to manage a machine without IPMI. I try to get it on every motherboard I buy, but currently my Ceph nodes are running with motherboards that lack built-in IPMI. After an incident with one machine while I was on vacation, I finally decided that they needed remote management, and I decided to make my own BMC for them rather than waste money on replacement (IPMI-capable) motherboards.
## Enter the Raspberry Pi ## Enter the Raspberry Pi