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[Russell Howe]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:18:48PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >They also have HPs iLo, which is kinda crap*, but it's something I suppose.
> 
> Coming from a Sun background, I was horrified at the junk that's being
> passed off as a "lights out manager" in the PC world, and in
> particular, in Compaq/HP machines. Yes, it works... sometimes... if
> you happen to be sitting in front of a suitable client, with
> sufficient bandwidth. You can forget about fixing a problem with your
> mobile phone, though, which I used to do occasionally with our Sun kit
> when out and about.

You /can/ SSH into iLO 2 (which is what the DL320 G5 has, and probably
older boxes too), and get a serial console which isn't too bad. You can
also configure all the BIOS options from there too, although the
interface is poor and the help screens on the CLI are, um, poor to say
the least. Not something you want to be using every day, but useful if
you're in a tight spot.

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