You used to be able to buy lights out cards directly from Compaq/hp as a pci card. Not sure if you can do that, but they are really nice. The Dell drac is nice too, even lets you mount the floppy/cdrom from your local pc. I would think lights out is the same but haven't used one in several years.
_____ From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 6:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Use laptop as external kbd/monitor? "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/25/2008 05:43:07 PM: > On Jan 25, 2008 3:33 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what can't you do via SSH? > > "Investigate boot and network failures" comes to mind. ;-) Don't forget that many of the "Big Boys" (Dell, IBM, HP, etc.) have out of band management cards that you can access remotely. Some even have their own power supplies (so you can at least confirm if it's a power issue with the server or not). These cards will let you do just about everything as if you were sitting at the local console - as well as provide all sorts of diagnostic information and even remote auto-notification. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
