The AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC is a highly efficient highly compatible and easy-to-use IPMI card that allows the user to take advantage of the BMC a base- board management controller installed on a server motherboard and the IPMIView an IPMI compliant management application software loaded in a PC to provide serial links between the main processor and other system components allowing for network interfacing via remote access. With an independent Hitachi Renesas H8S processor built-in the AOC-SIMSO-HTC/AOC-SIMLC-HTC provides the user with a solution to ease the complex and expensive systems allowing an administrator to access monitor diagnose and manage network interfacing anywhere anytime.