v2.0.0

[dev-luigi]

v2.0.0 is a full rewrite. v1 was one HTML page that pushed fan commands at a single Dell. v2 is a Python/FastAPI backend serving a React dashboard, talking to as many BMCs as you want over ipmitool.

Everything runs on your box. SQLite on disk, no cloud, no telemetry.

What it does

Area	What you get
Monitoring	Live temperature, fan RPM, voltage and power over a WebSocket. History charts at 1H, 24H and 7D.
FanPilot	Drag-and-drop fan curves. The loop runs in the backend, so it keeps working with the browser closed.
Power	On, soft off, hard off, reset and cycle, with an audit log. Tracks kWh and cost per server.
Event log	Browse and search the BMC event log. Export to CSV or JSON.
Inventory	FRU data: board, chassis, product.
Interface	12 languages, dark and light themes, command palette, mobile layout.

Fan safety

Above your critical threshold (85 °C by default) fans go to 100% and stay there until the temperature clears the hysteresis band. If a BMC stops answering, FanPilot fails safe instead of leaving the fans wherever they were. On shutdown it hands automatic fan control back to the BMC, including on Ctrl+C and docker stop.

Supported hardware

Sensors, power, event log and FRU work on any IPMI 2.0 BMC. Fan control is vendor-specific.

Vendor	Fan control	Tier	Why
Dell PowerEdge (iDRAC)	Yes	Tested	Validated on real hardware (R720)
Supermicro (X10+)	Yes	Experimental	Both fan zones, not exhaustively tested
IBM System x (IMM)	Yes	Experimental	Dual fan bank, not exhaustively tested
HPE ProLiant (iLO)	No	Monitoring only	iLO exposes no IPMI fan-control interface
Lenovo ThinkSystem (XCC)	No	Monitoring only	No reliable way to restore automatic mode
Generic / unknown BMC	No	Monitoring only	Never sends raw writes it cannot verify

Monitoring-only boxes still get full sensors, power, event log and FRU. If you run Supermicro or IBM, reports are welcome. That is how they move to Tested.

Install

Docker:

docker run -d --name ipmideck --network host \
  -v ipmideck-data:/data \
  devluigi06/ipmideck:latest

On Windows and macOS use -p 3000:3000 instead of --network host.

pip (needs ipmitool on the system):

pip install ipmideck
ipmideck start

Open http://<your-ip>:3000 and the setup wizard takes over. No hardware around? ipmideck --demo seeds fake servers so you can click through everything.

Coming from v1

There is no in-place upgrade. Different stack, different database, different config. Install fresh and re-add your servers through the wizard.

	v1	v2
Stack	Node.js + Express	Python 3.11+ / FastAPI + React
Image	devluigi06/ipmi-fanpilot	devluigi06/ipmideck
Data volume	/app	/data
Env prefix	none	IPMIDECK_*

Port 3000 is unchanged.

Links

Docs · Docker Hub · PyPI · Issues

The docs have per-vendor guides for turning IPMI on: iDRAC, iLO, Supermicro, XCC and IMM.

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Bad fan control can damage hardware. Test somewhere that is not production first. Apache-2.0, provided as-is.

Full Changelog: 84df472...v2.0.0

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This discussion was created from the release v2.0.0.