On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Peter C. Lai <pe...@simons-rock.edu> wrote: > On 2010-02-09 05:32:02PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> One similar product that does seem to work well is iLO, available on >>> HP/Compaq hardware. >> >> I've heard great things about that. It seems like a much better design - >> it's essentially a small server that is independent from the main host. Has >> it's own LAN and serial ports as well. >> >> Charles > > Dell PowerEdge Remote Access (DRAC) cards also provided this as well, > and for a while there, you could actually VNC into them. But HP offers iLO > for no extra charge or discount upon removal (DRACs are worth about $250) > and has become such a prominent "must-have" datacenter feature that the > "iLO" term is beginning to become genericized for web-accessible and virtual > disc-capable onboard out-of-band IP-console management. > > -- > =========================================================== > Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock > Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. > Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA > peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 > =========================================================== >
I thought that their VNC implementation is non-standard, and I wasn't able to VPN into them, at least on the latest Core i7 models. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
