[PLUG] video TO and keyboard/mouse FROM a laptop

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Daniel Johnson wrote:

> At my last job we setup IPMI to give us serial over Lan and got it 
> working with the bios screen.  So it was like being able to ssh to 
> the console.  IPMI also lets you do things like turn the power off, 
> and on.  We setup a PXE server in the colo box.  With the 
> combination of IPMI, serial over lan, and PXE boot images we could 
> fix almost anything that wasn't a hardware issue without traveling 
> to the colo. It was a bit of a learning curve, but well worth it.

So when is the Advanced Topics meeting on this? I'm so there! :-)

-- 
Paul "Wishes he had an easy IPMI tutorial" Heinlein