On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:28 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Agreed...KVM over IP is the way to go....and it's what I use for 99% of > anything requiring a "keyboard", > but that's only after the bootstrapping step to get the out-of-band port onto > the network. I currently do not have auto-provisioning on the OOB network, so > the IP/KVM builtin to the machine is only useful after the OOB device address > & LAN params have been configured in the BIOS.
We don't have "autoprovisioning" on the OOB network, but for us, it's fairly simple. We know from the packing list (which is scanned by the colo staff and sent to us as part of the "remote hands install") the serial numbers of the units that arrived. ILO will DHCP-request using its serial number in the client-id field, which makes it easy to find in the DHCP logs. Get the MAC address from that, set up its "static DHCP" assignment, and wait for its next IP refresh. Once that happens (short lease times on the OOB network), we just connect via web browser to its ILO port, and it's as good as sitting in front of the machine: power button, BIOS, full graphics, etc., etc. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
