[PLUG] out-of-band management card

[drew wymore]

Sorry Carlos. I should qualify my comment a little more. You *can*
telnet to the card for OOB managment but you don't get the obvious use
of seeing the terminal as if you were sitting in front of the machine
and you can't do the fancy stuff like booting the machine using CD or
ISO image from the remote machine you are using to access the term.

On 8/20/09, Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
> 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>
>> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,	civil and on-topic"
>>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> 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
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