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Nick Anderson wrote: |
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>> Nick, can I use those serial consoles to manage a PC hardware without the |
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>> OS (like BIOS access)? |
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bios level access is available on some boards.. For example a lot of |
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embedded boards.. or single board computers.. (eg.. soekris) There's a |
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more enterprise/cluster ready hw solution, but the vendor slips my mind |
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atm.. I also have only been referred to them and haven't used them |
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personally. |
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I've had clients with HP IP KVM solutions and it worked reasonably well. |
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Java client never crashed on me, but the pricetag is certainly not |
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'cheap'... There's a hosting company in SJ that has their own IP KVM |
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solution rolled, but never got around to asking them exactly how they |
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did it.. email me off list and I'll forward their contact info.. |
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If you're on standard hw.. pxe boot +'APC pdu switches.. You get the |
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fencing device for your cluster and even in the event of hw failure you |
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can still have node up.. |
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./C |
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