[TriLUG] Re: remote hardware management

[David Brain]

My experience with some other manufacturers.

I spent some time looking at a one of the Sun Opteron boxes - very
nice LOM capabilities, of course the box wasn't exactly inexpensive.
But it had browser based console, remote media etc.etc..

The newer Dell boxes also come with IMPI over Ethernet that can be
used to do some out of band monitoring/maintenance, and the older
boxes have the 'BMC' backplane - although I've not looked into that
all that much.  I've yet to see what the new range (1950s etc..) have
in the way of remote management.

David.

On 9/6/06, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net> wrote:
> More on the ILO front, even if it doesn't help Jason, perhaps others
> will benefit.
>
> There's other advantages, we are ordering some Proliants for firewalls,
> it's amazing how much cheaper it is to run Checkpoint Secure Platform on
> a Proliant than Nokia appliances.
>
> The ILO is great because it provides real out of band management,
> provided you have another set of switches, etc for the network connection.
>
> The ILO is going to be 3 tiers any day now, they claim that there is a
> very good performance gain.
>     Basic (included in server purchase) this provides character mode
> console and remote power via a browser
>     Standard (about $100+) this adds Active Directory/LDAP
> authentication and remote media
>     Advanced (about $200+) this adds full GUI console
>
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> Kevin