Supermicro IPMIView Reviews

While technically it does connect and function, display resolution is awful and the display is rotated 90 degrees on my Macbook Pro

Supermicro makes amazing hardware, built for longetivity and reliability, but SupermicroIPMIView is the exact opposite of that. The KVM, especially is unusable. The keyboard blocks the view of the screen, instead of shifting the screen up, on a Mac, the KVM is sideways and forces you to use a smushed on screen keyboard?? You can't even use a physical keyboard. This is very poorly implemented. I'd use the web application, but it development was also abandoanded and the Java web-applets are being blocked from running, no matter how many security protocols I try to disable in Java.

This is really disappointing.

can't find local server!

I love Supermicro and their history as a scappy purveyor of fine hardware. I've spent a lot of money over 20 years for their gear, I am very loyal to the brand. But this kind of thing with ILO/IPMI has come up in the past. The servers are all X10 motherboards which are hardly dead. HTML console over current spec HTTPS/TLS is the obvious solution here, but we are being left out to dry. It's really disappointing.

How about some return loyalty, Supermicro?

SupermicroIPMIView could be tremendously useful if it had proper iPad support.

Kvm no longer works

Wouldn't connect probably because it doesn't support ipmi 2.0

I could almost allow for the rotation issue and have this tool as emergency use only, but it won't accept any keyboard input. I can only use the onscreen keyboard. Try typing a proper root password with that!

I'm using it on my iPad, and it appears now that it is "iPhone only." Why the change? Arrgh!!!

I didn't expect much from SupermicroIPMIView, and I wasn't wrong. The desktop version of the IPMIVIEW is horrible, and SupermicroIPMIView is more or less the same. I was hoping the KVM console would work better but it's buggy, freezing, and not very useful.

Can’t view kvm. There’s no button for it on my server. What the heck?

KVM is nearly useless on an M1 Mac. Stuck in portrait, probably because it started rendering the remote session sideways without informing the OS that it switched to landscape. Should be an easy fix.

...but on my MacBook Air M2, the KVM display is rotated 90°, so pretty much unworkable.

Even more frustratingly, it opens correctly for a split-second, then rotates.

If you don't need the KVM feature, you may still find SupermicroIPMIView very useful.

Works great but would be even better with iPad and keyboard support.

Besides the obvious and already mentioned omission of iPad support, I was stunned when I couldn’t use my Bluetooth keyboard in KVM mode! SupermicroIPMIView forces you to use its clunky built-in keyboard that covers half of the (iPhone size) screen.

It’s nice that I can connect to my servers with SupermicroIPMIView (why do these motherboards use non-standard VNC protocol?), but the poor usability of SupermicroIPMIView make it a last resort.

This is one of the best remote control app I have ever seen, my main complaint is about the fixed keyboard which is always in the way or right on top of what I need to see. I would like to be able to position the keyboard wherever I want on the screen, maybe on the side or just floating. Another annoying feature is that it is stuck in landscape mode, going portrait could help with the keyboard display, there is ample space on ipad pros! Health checks and sensors will be displayed only if server is fully initialized.

SupermicroIPMIView would get 5 starts if we could run it correctly on M1 Macs, the JAVA Web Starter files are a total PITA to run nowadays when trying to manage SuperMicro servers on Macs, SupermicroIPMIView is perfect for it, but as it's made for iPad you guys did not include a real portrait mode as it's not technically required for an iPhone/iPad, but for the M1 desktop mode if you don't put one the KVM view ends up at the wrong angle with no way to fix the window angle.

The ability to have notes for each device. So once I've added a server, a notes tab where we can put notes or schedules for each device that I can pull up when I click on the device.

pretty happy with the level of detail in control supermicro has provided here.
I have about 20 different Supermicro Support where is added, x8, X9 and X10 systems and it works well.

Works well with my supermicro server: power on/power off, sensors, even kvm. My server doesn't have a gui so I don't know how well mouse emulation works.

The biggest improvement I can suggest is to make this into an iPad app. The iPhone screen is a little small for everything that can be done with SupermicroIPMIView .