[Gllug] Hardware giveaway!

[John Hearns]

2009/7/27 Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk>:
>
> Like Richard, I hate the fact that PCs don't have proper serial
> consoles. The vendor recommended solution always seems to be KVM
> over IP instead, which anyone that's tried it to a datacentre in
> the Far East will know simply isn't a viable alternative. Plus
> it doesn't work from my mobile phone. A serial console does.

Normal HPC cluster type setup is to ssh to the cluster head node
(login node) then use IPMI Serial Over Lan to reach the serial
consoles on the compute nodes, and uses IPMI to power up/down compute
nodes.
Generally works quite well - assumes though that your login node is
reachable of course!
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