On 2012-11-03, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Dewey Hylton <dewey.hyl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> for some of my remote customers, as well as my own office, i'm looking for >> an out-of-band management solution that's cheaper than iLO or DRAC. remote >> power management would be nice, but network KVM is a must. i read about >> intel vpro / amt recently and just started looking into it; it seems to be >> baked into most of their q-series chipsets. >> >> has anyone here successfully used the intel solution for KVM or anything >> else? how about unsuccessfully? having something baked into the chipset >> makes me worry about compatibility with openbsd, as i'm not sure just how >> transparent/non-invasive it is. >> >> reports either way would be appreciated - as would another usable solution. >> > > Just saw it in 52.html > > Added support for using AMT to provide console-over-Ethernet (c.f. the > amtterm package) http://openports.se/comms/amtterm > > So maybe good chance for you > >
amtterm is for serial console over the NIC, it works on X220 but iirc it doesn't share the nic nicely with em(4). On OpenBSD I'd consider it more of a developer/debug tool than anything else really. For the remote customers, you might do better with some external 1-port IP KVM box (I have a little AdderLink IPEPS box which works directly with a standard VNC client, in my case I've got this so I can use my laptop as a portable screen/keyboard to plug into a server, but it would also work as something that could be left onsite and plugged into a machine as needed, there are slightly smaller alternatives like the lantronix spider but I suspect many of these, though based on VNC type protocols, might need some special java client).
