Supermicro® Update Manager remotely updates the BIOS and BMC/IPMI firmware, as well as, system settings of Supermicro X9 (Romley) and X10 generation based machine through in-band and OOB (Out-Of-Band) communication channels, i.e., communication through the BMC/IPMI interface. Users can locally or remotely edit system BIOS and BMC/IPMI settings from a human-readable text file, and use this utility to update the target machine's system BIOS and BMC/IPMI configuration. Firmware updates and setting operations is independent of operating environment on target machine and can be executed before system OS/hypervisor is installed.