> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Brad Knowles > > The Dell servers I've seen require the use of PCs running Windows and > Internet Explorer to perform certain systems administration tasks, like > updating firmware, some aspects of remote console access, configuring the > PERC RAID controllers, etc.... They do things like Active-X plug-ins that > download from the server to your browser, and if you're not running IE on > Windows, then you're screwed.
That must have been a long, long time ago. Because we use mostly Dell servers, and I've never seen anything like that in the last 8 years. We have a mixture of windows, linux, and solaris running on these dells, and we have admins who use windows, osx, and ubuntu as their desktops, all with no problems. I will only say that solaris isn't very stable on the dell, but the windows & linux are both fine. Ironically, I have one Sun server, and I did see something like that on the Sun. Specifically, to install the OS you connect to the remote console and map your local optical drive to the remote machine, which works in windows but not mac. And to be fair, the remote console over the iDRAC Enterprise is something we don't use. That's where the Sun fell down, and for all I know, the dell could fall down there too. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
