Lanner today announces that its BMC platforms now supports Redfish API, a human-readable Platform Management standard API designed to deliver efficient and secure resource management for Lanner network appliances.
More recently, enterprise organizations are transitioning to demand-drive dynamic scaling solutions, requiring a new usage model for resource management, whereas traditional platform standards are unable to sufficiently manage hybrid infrastructure models, or multi-node server deployment. Customers now require a comprehensive API that is capable of managing modern infrastructures, compatible with structures and security models that are common in cloud computing ecosystems, and compliant with web protocols and industry standards.
Redfish boosts an intuitive modern interface that is built to display information directly to the modern tool chain, leveraging widely-used tools to optimize resource development and utilization.
Redfish features and benefits
Lanner’s Redfish solution enables users to perform various commands and actions, including simple program configuration and maintenance tasks, with extensions for customization and value addition. Redfish API provides flexible implementation on several compatible platforms and operating systems to reduce vendor lock-in. In addition to its low memory footprint, the API is exceedingly responsive to ensue increased productivity. Lanner’s Redfish API supports DMTF Redfish standard multi-vendor network configurations with scalability, resulting in a seamless server management experience.
Redfish offers a simple single root endpoint that expands to reveal a well-structured collection of managers, systems, chassis and service endpoints, providing access in single shot or sessions command operations, allowing users to manage and monitor hardware in polled and event driven models. Redfish API is secure, scalable, and extensible with additional next-generation infrastructure properties.
|
Function |
IPMI Command |
Redfish Command |
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Get user info |
0x2e 0x1 0x1 |
GET /user/1 |
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Add user |
0x2e 0x2 0x1 plus many user info bytes |
POST /user/1 plus readable user info |
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Update user info |
0x2e 0x3 0x1 plus many user info bytes |
PUT /user/1 plus readable user info |
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Delete user |
0x2e 0x4 0x1 |
DELETE /user/1 |
Comparison of IPMI and Redfish Command
Redfish API uses HTTP protocol over a TCP/IP network, using either HTTPS, OData, OpenAPI, JSON data schemas for easy integration with existing internet standards and modern tool chains to perform system management tasks. The infrastructure facilitates configuring of network settings and multi-account management for modern host servers and meet system administrator demands in this present time and future.