Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-23 Thread Nick Nauwelaerts
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:36:58 -0500 Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: I thought you only needed the license if you used higher resolutions than a basic console. If you are just using text mode on the console, then they work excellently. ILO2 can't do KVM at

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-22 Thread Joe Warren-Meeks
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:10:16PM +0100, Nick Nauwelaerts wrote: I don't really see how this is related to openbsd, but ilo2 wins hands down to drac, but has a costly advanced license. Installing openbsd through ilo2 virtual cd works just fine btw. I thought you only needed the license if

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael
Hi, Xavier MilliC(s-Lacroix schrieb: We need to be able to do 'quite' everything remotely (from installing (virtual floppy / cd / dvd) to exploitation). I've got some experience with DRACs... some good (it works) but mostly bad... good thing is, with DRAC 4/5 you can load an iso image into the

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-22 Thread Xavier Milliès-Lacroix
Hello, I'm not sure but advanced ilo provides remote cd/dvd/floppy ? Is it true ? Xavier. 2008/2/22, Joe Warren-Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:10:16PM +0100, Nick Nauwelaerts wrote: I don't really see how this is related to openbsd, but ilo2 wins hands down to drac,

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Shockley
Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: I thought you only needed the license if you used higher resolutions than a basic console. If you are just using text mode on the console, then they work excellently. ILO2 can't do KVM at all without the Advanced license, but I think ssh still works. They also have a

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:01:21PM +0100, Xavier Millihs-Lacroix wrote: We need to be able to do 'quite' everything remotely (from installing (virtual floppy / cd / dvd) to exploitation). I prefer PXE booted bsd.rd and a serial console, with BIOS serial redirection it is quite close to a LOM

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Shockley
Xavier Millihs-Lacroix wrote: Who wins in the OpenBSD world? DRAC (Dell Remote Admin Card) or iLo (HP's Integrated Lights Out) (or better ilo2) ? I prefer HP ILO. Both do more or less the same thing, but Dell seems to change their card interface every other week, and HP builds them into

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Nauwelaerts
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:01:21 +0100 Xavier Millihs-Lacroix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wins in the OpenBSD world? DRAC (Dell Remote Admin Card) or iLo (HP's Integrated Lights Out) (or better ilo2) ? We're looking at new servers and are wondering if these are worth the cash, or which is the

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/21 14:21, Steve Shockley wrote: Xavier Millihs-Lacroix wrote: Who wins in the OpenBSD world? DRAC (Dell Remote Admin Card) or iLo (HP's Integrated Lights Out) (or better ilo2) ? I prefer HP ILO. Both do more or less the same thing, but Dell seems to change their card interface

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Xavier Milliès-Lacroix
I really like PXE too. But the servers to be administrate remotely would be the firewalls (two in carp association). Xavier 2008/2/21, Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:01:21PM +0100, Xavier Millihs-Lacroix wrote: We need to be able to do 'quite' everything remotely

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Xavier Milliès-Lacroix
I really like PXE too. But the servers to be administrate remotely would be the firewalls (two in carp association). Xavier

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: I normally go for the time-honoured serial console to a box running conserver and a masterswitch though (on a separate lan: you don't really want this sort of thing, ILO/DRAC or masterswitch or IP KVM or whatever else, on your

Re: Remote Admin Card - Dell DRAC or HP ILO2 ?

2008-02-21 Thread Xavier Milliès-Lacroix
You are right. I think I'll put a box like soekris in front of ILO ports to prevent hack on ILO By this way I 'll be able to push CD / floppy image to the HP's servers. During upgrade of the soerkis box. I'll use the firewall server COM port and PXE if I should do a full reinstall. Xavier.