Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Joe Landman > <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > >> Of course I could also talk about the SOL (serial over lan) which didn't >> > > THanks Joe! I've been reading about IPMI and also talking to my vendor > about it. Sure, our machines also have IPMI support! > > Question: What's the difference between SOL and IPMI. Is one a subset > of the other? >
SOL is provided by IPMI v1.5+, so it's a part of IPMI itself. > Frankly, based on my past experience the only part of IPMI that I > foresee being most useful to us is the console (keyboard + monitor) > redirection. Right from the BIOS stage of the bootup cycle. All the > other IPMI capabilities are of course cool and nice but that is icing > on the cake for me. > 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. -- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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