“Yes. And it’s on the default gateway.”

In the sterile, humming data center of the Pacific Omni-Network Hub, a junior network engineer named Maya stared at her screen. The alert was a soft orange—a "medium priority" anomaly. But the tagline made her blood run cold.

She reached for the Ethernet cable labeled "MGMT."

iLO. Integrated Lights-Out. The backdoor god-mode of any server. With iLO access, you weren't just a user. You were a ghost who could turn fans into jet engines, cook CPUs from the inside, or quietly wipe a drive while the OS cheerfully reported "all systems nominal."