Doug Hughes <[email protected]> writes: > If you've got a decent, embedded KVM you can do a lot of things that > you simply cannot do with a serial or even in front of the machine > including: > * Viewing stats from FRUs like fan and CPU temperatures > * Forwarding alarms from same into your event management system > * multiple levels of permission for accessing different components
Yes, those things can be handy if dmidecode or lmstats doesn't give you that info when the box is running. > * capabilities for upgrading BIOS and or BMC when it needs it > * ability to access a virtual CD drive either from an ISO image on your These things can be done via pxe. > * ability to see graphical things that might show up on the console > (possibly more important if your box is windows - based) This is very important, sometimes, and if you need graphics out of band, there is no substitute for KVM over IP. > What you don't get from a serial console that you do get from sitting in > front of the machine. > * reset/power cycle of machine Well, you /need/ metering PDUs, right? switchable PDUs are not that much more expensive than metering PDUs and they solve that problem. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
