Modern Management

The industry is moving from IPMI to Redfish. Learn the REST API that is replacing legacy protocols. Discover resources, pull inventory via JSON, monitor thermals and power, execute remote actions, and write Python automation scripts.

Labs in this module

Redfish Discovery - Meet Redfish, the modern management API. Walk a live BMC's REST tree with curl, authenticate, extract values with jq, and map Systems, Chass
Redfish Inventory - Redfish turns hardware inventory into structured JSON. Walk the Systems, Chassis, and Managers tree with curl, extract exactly the fields th
Redfish Monitoring - Thermal and power telemetry as clean JSON: pull the Redfish Thermal and Power endpoints with curl, filter readings against critical threshol
Redfish Actions - Stop reading, start doing: discover the Redfish Reset action, POST a graceful shutdown, watch PowerState flip over the API, bring the server
Redfish Automation - Turn single Redfish queries into a bash fleet health check: probe liveness by status code, carve identity, thermal, and power fields with jq