[PLUG] out-of-band management card

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, drew wymore wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:07:10 -0700
> From: drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com>
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> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,	civil and on-topic"
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] out-of-band management card
> 
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Carlos Konstanski <
> ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking to get an out-of-band management card to slap into a Dell
>> Precision workstation type box.  The AMI MegaRack G4 was suggested to me:
>>
>>   http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/megarac-g4.html
>>
>> Is this a decent card?  Are there better ones for any-old-server
>> usage?
>>
>> Carlos
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>
> I have the G3 version of this card. It works well although at least with the
> G3 it requires you use IE (ugh) because it uses an activex control to do the
> remote console session.
>
> Drew-

That blows.  But I wonder if an alternative even exists.

Carlos