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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, drew wymore wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:07:10 -0700 >> From: drew wymore <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" >> <[email protected]> >> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [PLUG] out-of-band management card >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Carlos Konstanski < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
