Implementing Out-of-Band Open Source Management using Swordfish
Firmware update, security management and initial system provisioning need to be performed at scale, which is a challenge for many environments. Standards-based Management is essential for interoperability between the components required for large-scale deployments. Standards-based out-of-band mechanisms such as MCTP and NVMe-MI provide the basic functionality but need Swordfish to provide the client interface and scalability. Implementations have been developed as open source and upstreamed to integrate between these two layers.