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I know what you mean, there is lot of hype around it and not much substance. |
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Assuming my motherboard supports IPMI, do you know if I will be able to do |
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> something like KVM-over-IP (or over ethernet) with this? |
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It's not so much that it will allow you to KVM-over-IP but it should allow |
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you to do a hardware reset should you have a system hang, essentially like |
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pressing the reset button or power down. Which is useful if you get a Kernel |
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Panic, and allows you to reset the machine. I had looked at it initial as |
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the cost of managing hundreds of machines with KVN is as you mentioned |
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expensive and when using PXE boot with all machines providing SSH KVM just |
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seems excess to requirements... |
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If you then keep a backup of stable images for network boot if you do have |
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problems you can just roll-back to the working image. Hereby completely |
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avoiding the KVM issue. That i what I hope to achieve with IPMI support. |
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I have played around with it a fair bit and there a a few different |
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implementations in the gentoo package database all slightly different. |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ipmi |
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I would be interested to hear anyone else's experiences with IPMI. |
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Regards, |
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Hanni |
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My Blog: http://ainkaboot.co.uk/blogs/hanni/ |
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