On 20/02/2013, at 21:43, Paul Schenkeveld <free...@psconsult.nl> wrote: >> What about getting a remote console like HP's ILO or Dell's DRAC ? >> >> You get to login remotely, you can use some degree of access control... you >> can even remote boot. > > For new hardware I could indeed use this, the current hardware does not > support remote console. > > I don't have experience with ILO nor DRAC but I do have experience with > SuperMicro's KVM over LAN which does need a java client to run. If I can > enter the passphrase over ssh that would be better as I can use any device > including a smartphone to dial in and enter the passphrase.
If you setup a serial console you don't need Java if you use ipmitool, eg ipmitool -H remoteip -U ADMIN -I lanplus sol activate The way IPMI graphical console stuff _stinks_ - I spent several hours trying to help a customer and I was stymied at every level trying to work out how to use SSH port forwarding to have the console Java client connect to the remote server (for example, it ignores system wide SOCKS proxy settings). In the end I used tun forwarding which was just stupid - it really is written assuming everyone uses a VPN. There is no logic behind the use of the VNC protocol but bastardised enough that normal clients can connect. </rant> That inspired me to send a longer rant to Supermicro about it, maybe nothing will come of it but I feel better ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
