On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:55 -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Rahul Nabar wrote:
>
> > So, hopefully I will have very little need for IPMI (remote power
> > cycling is great though; those network aware power distribution stics
> > seem great).
>
> You haven't mentioned the other things you can use IPMI for.
>
> 1) Console logging. Your machine just crashed. No clue in
> /var/log/messages. "I wonder if it printed something on the console?"
> Answer: ipmi and conman (available in an rpm in Red Hat distros).
>
IPMI is also handy for initiating crash dumps via NMI. Useful for
finding out why that machine went zombie when there is nothing in the
SOL console logging.
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