Tag: SPMF

DMTF Releases Redfish Host Interface Specification

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Quoting their press release:
“DMTF’s innovative Redfish standard continues its fast progression, thanks to the dedicated efforts of the Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF). To date, Redfish has focused on defining a TCP/IP-based out-of-band interface between a client and a management controller. Today, the newly available Redfish Host Interface Specification expands these capabilities to allow applications and tools running on an Operating System – including in the pre-boot (firmware) stage – to communicate with the Redfish management service. Every device exposes an interface to the host software (Operating System or Hypervisor). Management controllers are no different, and this standard modernizes this interface to equalize the capabilities of “in-band” or “host-based” applications with remote applications using Redfish. To learn more about Redfish or to download the Redfish Host Interface specification, please the Redfish web site. Developers can also visit the Redfish Developer Hub, a one-stop, in-depth technical resource with all the files, tools, community support and education you may need to help you use Redfish. To participate in the Host Interface Task Force, please join the DMTF’s SPMF.”

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish/
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/spmf/
http://redfish.dmtf.org/

Click to access DSP0270_1.0.0.pdf

DMTF Redfish 1.0 released

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Redfish, an IPMI replacement, has shipped the first release of their spec. Quoting the press release:

DMTF Helps Enable Multi-Vendor Data Center Management with New Redfish 1.0 Standard

DMTF has announced the release of  Redfish 1.0, a standard for data center and systems management that delivers improved performance, functionality, scalability and security. Designed to meet the expectations of end users for simple and interoperable management of modern scalable platform hardware, Redfish takes advantage of widely-used technologies to speed implementation and help system administrators be more effective. Redfish is developed by the DMTF’s Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF), which is led by Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Supermicro and VMware with additional support from AMI, Oracle, Fujitsu, Huawei, Mellanox and Seagate. The release of the Redfish 1.0 standard by the DMTF demonstrates the broad industry support of the full organization.

http://dmtf.org/standards/redfish
http://dmtf.org/join/spmf

Don’t forget to grab the Redfish “Mockup” as well as the specs and schema.

UEFI 2.5 has a JSON API to enable accessing Redfish. HP was first vendor with systems that supported UEFI 2.5’s new HTTP Boot, a PXE replacement.  Intel checked in HTTP Boot support into TianoCore, so it’s just a matter of time until other vendors have similar products. JSON-based Redfish and HTTP-based booting makes UEFI much more of a “web app”, w/r/t security research, and the need for system administrators to more closely examine how firmware is updated on their systems, to best protect them.
https://firmwaresecurity.com/tag/uefi-http-boot/