Right, this surprised me. They&#x27;re doing IPMI, so why not SOL (Serial over LAN) to get the raw stream?<p>Actually, on second thoughts, I&#x27;m not surprised so much. I&#x27;ve read many threads on Supermicro IPMI and people&#x27;s frustration with it (reliant on outdated Java, and hacked together wrappers over VNC) that make it seem like a deliberate choice to obfuscate things -just- enough to make other tools difficult.