[Gllug] KVM-over-internet

[John Hearns]

Rich,
  you mean like using IPMI?

Other names for this are BMCs (baseboard management controllers) or in
Dell speak ILOMs
they are embedded processors on the motherboard (or a small duaghter card)
you can power up/power down systems, get system health variables, and
remote consoles right down to the BIOS level if need be.

I use BMCs all the time - I can VPN in from home and bring systems up,
or power them down.

On 30/01/2012, Rich Walker <rw at shadowrobot.com> wrote:
>
> Possibly a slightly odd request, but has anyone seen something that does
> the equivalent of "attach a 3G dongle to a KVM switch"? We occasionally
> want to get access to a remote computer in a random foreign country
> before it has network connectivity, and this seems like the only
> sensible solution...
>
> cheers, Rich.
>
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