Yes our cron is working fine. I can send emails fine. Will check today and let you know. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] impressions of Super Micro IPMI management cards?



Chris,

I'm using the SIMSO version of the IPMI cards on my machines. No problems using them for what I wanted them for. Remote power, remote sensor monitoring and controlling both the BIOS and boot (via Grub) for Linux. I have also been able to boot Linux, monitor the boot process over the serial line and login on the serial line (via IPMI).

The motherboards I have use Intel NICs and this means I can use the out-of-band access to the card. Allows me to use a single Ethernet cable for both normal traffic and IPMI. I've also configured the IP/Mac addresses of the cards entirely from Linux (utils provided by SuperMicro).

I've not run the KVM over LAN option. Apparently I can't with my setup anyway (this is documented). Power up and Serial over LAN work fine from Linux via ipmitool - and there is also the Java based GUI SuperMicro application.

I'm currently looking at a whitebox server vendor and the remote management technology they propose is a Super Micro IPMI add-on card, apparently from this family of products: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/SIM.cfm

My needs are pretty minimal -- remote power control. BIOS access and the ability to trigger a PXE boot off the network. Anything else is just supplemental.

Does anyone have any experience/impressions of the "Supermicro Intelligent Management" stuff?
P.S. I am also running SuperMicro Systems - I don't know if (or how well) they work on other boards.

They work for what I need,

Craig
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