[Beowulf] recommendation on crash cart for a cluster room: full cluster KVM is not an option I suppose?

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 09:33:48 PDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Skylar Thompson <skylar at cs.earlham.edu> wrote:
> Rahul Nabar wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Joe Landman
>> <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote:


>
> In addition to the console, the other really useful feature of IPMI is
> remote power cycling. That's useful when the console itself is totally
> wedged.
>

True. That's a useful feature. But that "could" be done by sending
"magic packets" to a eth card as well, right? I say "can" because I
don't have that running on all my servers but had toyed with that on
some. I guess, just many ways of doing the same thing.

-- 
Rahul



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