[Beowulf] Remote console management

David Kewley kewley at gps.caltech.edu
Sun Sep 25 15:02:17 PDT 2005


On Friday 23 September 2005 05:15, Joe Landman wrote:
> John Hearns wrote:
> > Joe also mentions Serial-over-Lan with IPMI cards. I politely agree
> > there! It is supported, but I'm not sure what the status is with Linux,
> > and I've never experimented with it (as I say, we use the physical
> > serial port). My guess is that it will work in Windows.
>
> I should be able to try this a little later on today/tomorrow when the
> new power supply for the v20z arrives.   If it works the way I expect,
> then I will send a quick note.  It is supposed to work with the
> ipmitools package.

That's "ipmitool" not "ipmitools".  Both are sourceforge projects, but 
ipmitools appears dead & tiny, while ipmitool is alive & highly functional.

David



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