Joel Jaeggli wrote:
The killer feature (that I'm willing to pay monay for for one of these products) is having a unit that can remotely power-cycle the box when the os is totally hung. We used to do this (and still do), with serially
Recent Compaq systems with integrated remote ILO provide a "virtual power button". In fact they also provide full graphical/console access over SSL and even booting of the remote system from a local CD/floppy/.iso image... the client is Java based too. I don't have long term experience with them or anything, it's just that I saw a demo recently and I have to admit to being quite impressed.
