[Gllug] Hardware giveaway!

[JLMS]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:44 PM, John Hearns<hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
>> On 07/28/2009 03:52 PM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>> Most x86 server rack mount units have proper serial consoles, even for the bios.
>>> It is a shame that normal PCs don't do the same. I should have been easy enough.
>>
>
> SGI kit has superb remote serial console and hardware diagnostics access.
> They put what is termed a 'Level 3' controller in your machine room -
> just a Linux PC really.
> This connects to 'Level 2' controllers on each machine, and each
> 'brick' in the machine has a lower level Level 1 controller. You get
> serial console access of course, and remote power down/power up,
> ability to reset and to issue a non-maskable interrupt.


Sounds like Sun's LOM, I am in the right path?

Last time I worked with SGI (many moons ago) I was not allowed to
touch them because it would have invalidated our support contract
:-D...
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