Out-of-band comparison chart
Raphael Languebien
Versatile Customer Success & Channel Strategy Professional | 15+ Years' SI, SW/HW, SaaS
Out-of-band (OOB) management is like having a special backstage pass to control and fix your computer systems even when things go wrong. Imagine your computer is a big concert, and while everyone else is enjoying the show in the front row, you have a secret entrance backstage that lets you make changes or solve problems without disturbing the main event.
Okay, that was a ChatGPT definition for non-technical people.
Why for non-technical people though? OOB is quite a technical thing you might say. True, however I've realized that only a few percentages of Digital Signage system integrators I've talked with for the past 5 months know roughly what Out-Of-Band is about, and even less actually implemented it.
Out-Of-Band management is one of the features to be used by Remote Device Management tools which aims at bringing two key benefits:
It gives access to the system without reliance on the operating system even if shut down (but plugged in). (the backstage metaphor).
In order to shed some lights on this technology, I'm happy to share this document
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aiming at listing which actors we can find in this space (leaving the server world with HP iLO, Dell iDRAC, Supermicro IPMI, Lenovo XClarity Controller, Cisco UCS Manager out of it as it addresses different types of machines), and how they differ from each other.
Disclaimer:
I did such chart out of curiosity (A few months ago, I personally thought that DASH was only an AMD thing...) and because I couldn't find such information already summarized and shared in one place. I've kept the links of all the relevant website/documents I looked into and did my best in putting the information in the right places and in the right manners.
If you have any comment or feel something is not right, please feel free to let me know and I'll be happy to make any correction. I could have missed out or misinterpreted something.
If you need any additional information on one of the companies, please reach out to them directly.
Thank you very much ~