specification has evolved through a number of iterations: v1.0 was announced on September 16, 1998: base specification v1.5, published on February 21, 2001: added features including IPMI over LAN, IPMI over Serial/Modem, and LAN Alerting v2.0, published on February 12, 2004: added features including Serial over LAN, Group Managed Systems, Enhanced Authentication, Firmware Firewall, and VLAN Support v2.0 revision 1.1, published on October 1, 2013: amended for errata, clarifications, and addenda, plus addition of support for IPv6 Addressing v2.0 revision 1.1 Errata 7, published on April 21, 2015: amended for errata, clarifications, addenda Implementations HP Integrated Lights-Out, HP's implementation of IPMI Dell DRAC, Dell's implementation of IPMI IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter, IBM's out-of-band management products, including IPMI implementations MegaRAC, AMI's out-of-band management product and OEM IPMI firmware Avocent MergePoint Embedded Management Software, an OEM IPMI firmware Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), Cisco's implementation of IPMI See also Alert Standard Format (ASF), another platform management standard Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH), another platform management standard Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel's out-of-band management product, as an alternative to IPMI Redfish (specification) Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP), a low-level protocol used for controlling hardware components Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA), AMD's out-of-band management standard System Service Processor, on some SPARC machines Wired for Management (WfM) References External links Intel IPMI Technical Resources Website A Comparison of common IPMI Software open-source projects coreIPM Project - open source firmware for IPMI baseboard management GNU FreeIPMI ipmitool ipmiutil OpenIPMI IPMeye - Centralized out-of-band access for enterprises / Part of VendorN's OneDDI platform Computer hardware standards System administration Out-of-band management Computer-related introductions in 1998