Hello, We had a discussion with baremetal-sig in PTG yesterday(23rd Oct 2023). Below are some of the ironic ilo driver features discussed and the summary of our understanding: - In-band and OOB RAID configuration and disk erase : · Cleaning steps are invoked via operator-written scripts for RAID, disk erase etc. The OS commands are directly invoked in the scripts for these tasks. · We are not clear if iLO driver inband RAID feature is used or not. · OOB RAID configuration and disk-erase is not used. - Out-of-Band Inspection: · We are not clear if OOB inspection is used or not. · LLDP data based inventory is most desired. Not all BMCs provide this data today. · Inspection is also used for getting the DHCP information especially, hostname. - UEFI HTTPS boot: · UEFI HTTPS boot feature of ilo driver is not used. · vMedia is the preferred way of deploy in the field. · UEFI HTTP deploy is proposed this cycle in redfish driver. · Some customers use PXE boot. - Smart Update Manager (SUM)-based firmware update: · Firmware update feature of ilo drivers is not used, rather redfish driver is used. Above is our understanding from the discussion in the baremetal-sig operator in PTG. Please correct/clarify our understanding. Basically, we are trying to figure out if any of the following ilo driver features are used : In-band and out-of-band RAID configuration In-band and out-of-band diskerase UEFI-HTTPS boot One button secure erase Smart Update Manager (SUM)-based firmware update Updating security parameters as manual cleaning step GPU hardware inspection We like to also know if proliantutils is used separately as a hardware manager or independently for any of the OOB/Inband features. Regards Nisha