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

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Sep 3 20:02:26 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:54 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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! :-)

Do I hear a volunteer? 

I am checking on who I have scheduled for this month and next month.
(My brain has been eaten by the new job at Intel.)  I think this month
is free and the next month taken, but I need to make sure.




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