the name "ILO" clashes with "Integrated Lights-Out" management as used by (or wa...

imglorp · 2025-10-21T14:52:43.000000Z

    IPMI - standard
    DRAC - Dell
    iLOM - Sun/Oracle
    iLO - HP
    IMM - IBM

p_l · 2025-10-21T16:56:34.000000Z

  BMC - vendor neutral
  RedFish - Current DMTF standard replacing IPMI
  ALOM - sometimes encountered in the wild as part of iLO :O
  HMC - IBM on non-x86 systems (except OpenPower), not compatible with anything else
  RSA - used to be IBM
  IMC - Cisco

buildbot · 2025-10-21T15:38:47.000000Z

XSCF - Fujitsu/Oracle SPARC

(I wonder how they got that acronym)

imglorp · 2025-10-21T16:54:31.000000Z

Possibly eXtended System Control Facility.

kragen · 2025-10-21T16:08:55.000000Z

It looks like they generated random four-letter combinations until they found one that wasn't used.

buildbot · 2025-10-21T18:59:42.000000Z

Ooo also, there is the RMC in some HP Alphaservers

LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-10-21T21:18:20.000000Z

eXtended System Configuration Facility?

lproven · 2025-10-23T11:44:46.000000Z

That was my immediate thought: it's a Forth that runs inside an ILO controller? Weird, but OK, I can see that could have some intriguing potential applications...

crc_ · 2025-10-21T19:03:46.000000Z

I wasn't aware of the clash when I chose the name, unfortunately.