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Console Management Servers



On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:18:50 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel Feenberg <feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> What is missing from all of these serial console devices is a reset butto=
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> for the machines being controlled. How much hardware would it take to=20
> logically connect one of the many controllable RS-232 wires to the reset=
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> pins on the MB? Or interface the WOL cable on the ethernet card to those=
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> pins?

I doubt you"ll ever see it
The reason is that new systems today are coming with ILO type devices
that have those features built in>

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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