Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> wrote: > Even with IPMI, you still need a crash cart of some type to initially > set up IPMI in the system's BIOS. At the minimum, you need to set the IP > address that the IMPI interface will listen on (if it's a shared NIC > port), and the password. You definitely don't want to leave the default > password.
That could more easily be done on a bench before racking the system. I have a really, really long PS/2 KVM cable that runs from a monitor/keyboard/mouse on the one table in the machine room to whichever machine needs work. I don't recall its length, 30 feet maybe, but these sorts of cables work up to 100 ft or so. The single long cable works here because the machine room is small. In the two steps forward, one step back category, many machines now have no PS/2 connectors, and the one place where USB has a problem is with long cables, which max out at 5 meters. This can be increased with more cables and hubs, but it stops being simple at 5 meters. If you just want to plug in a VGA monitor into such a system then a 100 ft single cable is still an option. Anyway, for me it is a lot easier to snake the one long cable across the floor than it would be to roll a cart around. YMMV. Regards, David Mathog [email protected] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
