Centralized control of baseboard management controllers for a fleet of network servers

A system comprising:

• one or more processers;
• and
• computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, from a baseboard management controller of each hardware device in a fleet of hardware devices operated by a tenant of a distributed computing environment, telemetry data associated with the corresponding hardware device, wherein the fleet of hardware devices includes different types of baseboard management controllers manufactured by different manufacturers;
• providing, via a portal interface, the telemetry data for each hardware device in the fleet of hardware devices, wherein the portal interface includes a plurality of user interface elements that respectively represent a plurality of characteristics for the baseboard management controllers;
• receiving, via the portal interface, a first input that selects a user interface element from the plurality of user interface elements;
• identifying, based on the first input, a set of baseboard management controllers that shares a respective characteristic represented by the user interface element selected;
• receiving, via the portal interface, a second input that selects a control action to implement via the set of baseboard management controllers;
• and
• causing, based on the second input, the control action to be implemented via the set of baseboard management controllers.

One or more computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, from a baseboard management controller of each hardware device in a fleet of hardware devices operated by a tenant of a distributed computing environment, telemetry data associated with the corresponding hardware device, wherein the fleet of hardware devices includes different types of baseboard management controllers manufactured by different manufacturers;
• identifying, via an automated control agent, a set of baseboard management controllers that shares a respective characteristic;
• and
• causing, via the automated control agent, a control action to be implemented via the set of baseboard management controllers.