On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Note that for my head nodes etc. I do plan on having a small (4 port) >> KVM in the main rack with its console and rackmount keyboard. I guess > > not worth it imo - I'd use the crash cart, since the need is so rare.
Good point! If "IPMI over LAN" works so well I might as well get rid of this mini KVM. > > ipmi ipmi ipmi. try to avoid the obnoxious nonstandard proprietary POS's > that vendors push. Thanks for the comments Mark. I'll try and not offend any vendors this time around! :) I had stayed away from "remote manage" precisely because most of what I had heard seemed vendor specific, proprietary systems. I wasn't aware of this public implementation of remote management! >you want remote power on/off/reset, then serial > redirect and hopefully bios redirect too. then temperature monitoring, > and SEL access. this should be in every entry-level server IMO. > > you know the vendor has jumped the shark if/when they provide xml-based > scripting and offer licensed extended features rather than standard ipmi > support... There are indeed a large number of vendor specific GUI solutions out there. I had played with one of those and it sort of put me off "remote manage" [Again, no offense vendors.] But I'll definitely toy with getting "IPMI over LAN" especially since all of you are so unanimously happy about it!! -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
