[kwlug-disc] Supermicro board

[L.D. Paniak]

I'll second that.

IPMI (Intelligent Platfrom Management Interface) and KVM -over-IP
functionality provided by the hardware like the AST2400 baseboard
management controller (BMC) are indispensable for remote management of
servers.  Whether the server is downstairs, down the hall, across town
or across the country, the small premium for this feature is worth the
money on a server motherboard.  It is standard on all Supermicro server
motherboards. 

If you have a network connection to a BMC, you have console access to
that system.  Just be sure to lock it down appropriately eg. :
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/at-least-32000-servers-broadcast-admin-passwords-in-the-clear-advisory-warns/


On 08/07/2014 10:14 AM, Cedric Puddy wrote:
> The AST2400 is a pretty standard remote control thing, that's integrated under various names into various servers.
>
> It's designed to be useful for remotely changing BIOS settings or logging in on the GUI console of a server that might not have it's own TCP/IP stack up.  Relative to native remote screen solutions that are running under the host OS and have knowledge of the internals of what's happening with the graphics, etc, the latency/performance of things like the AST2400 tend to be relatively terrible.  But you don't care about that when it's the difference between being able to save the day from your desk VS having to drive somewhere or talk some random person through a complex series of steps over the phone... :)
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> 	-Cedric
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> On 2014-08-06, at 1:33 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:51:42PM -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
>>> My personal favourite:
>>> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182819
>> That Supermicro board has AST2400 video which is supported by Linux (so
>> they say).  In actual use, how is it?  Can you play videos?
>> -- 
>> William
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