On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:30:54PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 09.02.2010 15:37, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >*SNIP* > >> > >>I can't agree with the last statement about HP's iLO. I have addon card > >>in ML110 G5 (dedicated NIC), the card is "expensive" and bugs are > >>amazing. The management NIC freezes once a day (or more often) with > >>older firmware and must be restarted from inside the installed system by > >>IPMI command on "localhost". With newer firmware, the interface is > >>periodicaly restarded. The virtual media doesn't work at all. It is my > >>worst experience with remote management cards. > >>I believe that other HP servers with built-in card with different FW is > >>working better, this is just my experience. > >> > >>Next one is eLOM in Sun Fire X2100 (shared NIC using bge + ASF). ASF > >>works without problem, but virtual media works only if you are > >>connecting by IP address, not by domain name (from Windows machines) and > >>there is some issue with timeouts of virtual media / console. > >>I reported this + 8 different bugs of web management interface to Sun > >>more than year ago - none was fixed. > >> > >>Next place is for IBM 3650 + RSA II card (dedicated NIC). Expensive, > >>something works, somthing not. For example the card can't read CPU > >>temperature, so you will not recieve any alert in case of overheating. > >>(it was 2 years ago, maybe newer firmware is fixed) > >> > >>Then I have one Supermicro Twin server 6016TT-TF with built-in IPMI / > >>KVM with dedicated NIC port. I found one bug with fan rpm readings (half > >>the number compared to BIOS numbers) and one problem with FreeBSD 7.x > >>sysinstall (USB keyboard not working, but sysinstall from 8.x works > >>without problem). In installed FreeBSD system keyboard and virtual media > >>is working without problems. > >> > >>On the top is Dell R610 DRAC (dedicated NIC) - I didn't find any bugs > >>and there are a lot more features compared to concurrent products. > >> > > > >I think the general consensus here is "nice theory lousy > >implementation", and the added migraine of no such thing as a common > >standard. > > > >Maybe creating a common standard for this could be a nice GSOC project, > >to build a nice "remote console" based on SSH and arm/mips? > > > >p.s. I've seen the various proprietary remote console solutions. They > >didn't really impress me much, so I ended up using off-the-shelf > >components for building my servers. Not necessarily cheaper, but at > >least it's under _MY_ control. > > > >//Svein > > Does anybody have experiences with ATEN IP8000 card? > I found it today > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pcid=2006041110563001&psid=20060411131311002&pid=20080401180847001&layerid=subClass1 > > It is not cheap, but it seems as universal solution for any > motherboard with PCI slot. > > "Host-side OS support - Windows 2000/2003/XP > /NT/VistaRedhat 7.1 and above; FreeBSD, Novell"
There's also the PC Weasel[1], which does VGA-to-serial and provides reset/power-cycle capability over the serial port. 100% OS-independent. The concept itself is really cool[2], but there's 3 major problems: 1) PCI version is 5V; some systems are limited to 3.3V PCI slots (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PCI_Keying.png) -- not to mention lots of systems are doing away with PCI altogether (in servers especially) 2) Limited to 38400 bps throughput (I run serial consoles at 115200), 3) Very expensive -- US$350 *per card*. I'm surprised no one else has come up with a similar solution especially given the regularity of DSPs, CPLDs, and FPGAs in this day and age. [1]: http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html [2]: http://www.realweasel.com/design.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
