[Gllug] KVM-over-internet

[John Hearns]

I guess what you mean is 'my systems don't happen to have BMCs John'
All we have are standard tower type cases.

Yes, there used to be remote PCI cards which had serial interfaces on
them - I forget what they were called. Probably died the death a long
time ago.


Also you should look at PCOIP   www.teradici.com
This is KVM over IP - however you don;t in general get BIOS level access.

On 30/01/2012, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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