[rescue] Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100)

[Andrew Weiss]

On May 4, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> And, their KVM thing requires a firefox plugin that must be  
> installed as
> root (or, in any case, somewhere in /usr).  Ick.
>
> Sun's thing can do this by connecting using ssh (or a serial line) to
> their LOM controller.  Plus, it's just an embedded linux box that they
> give you all the source code to, and you could hack away at it to fix
> things, or add features if desired.
>
> If Dell or HP offered ssh to connect to the darn thing instead of a
> crappy web interface, it'd be a whole lot more usable from home...


Last time I looked, HP iLO supports SSH and Telnet.  We have all of  
ours in Active Directory and use them only graphically, though.   
(Windows boxes).

Andrew

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