Dell Systems Management Overview Guide

Other Embedded Management Automation Interfaces

• WSMan: The Web Services For Management (WSMan) API, first published by the DMTF in 2008, is the most mature and robust API provided by iDRAC. WSMan uses a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) with data modeled using the Common Information Model. WSMan provides interoperability between management applications and managed resources, and identifies a core set of web service specifications and usage requirements that expose a common set of operations central to all systems management.
  NOTE:From the 17^th Generation of PowerEdge servers, WSMan is not supported. It is recommended to use Redfish API commands instead.
• IPMI: The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a message-based, hardware-level interface specification that can operate over both LAN and serial interfaces. IPMI is supported broadly by server vendors, systems management solutions, and open source software.
• SNMP: The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) helps in standardizing the management of network devices. SNMP allows commercial management consoles created for monitoring network switches and routers to also monitor X86 severs. SNMP is primarily used to deliver event messages to alert administrators of problems on their systems but can also be used to discover, inventory, and configure servers.