non video console output

[Vince D. Kimball]

Dell servers use IPMI too.

http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml

> I'm looking into IPMI and it looks like there are only two motherboards
> which support it. The intel server motherboards S3XXX S5XXX etc. and
> the super micro motherboards, not sure what the model names are. Is this
> correct? The IPMI looks to be like a special add on to the motherboards,
> not
> like I can go out and buy an IPMI card and plug it into any motherboard
> and
> away I go... Is that right?
>
> Cheers. Steve.
>
> Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:
>> IPMI ?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
>>
>> If you can't use IPMI, a friend of mine used a neat solution if you
>> have more than one computer running: connect a pair of serial ports
>> together using a null cable modem, so that you can monitor one
>> computer from the other. You can make a chain of connection so that
>> you can monitor more than 2 computers: basically you access the
>> console of the 'next' computer using a terminal emulator from the
>> 'previous' computer, like a linked-list kind of arrangement.
>>
>> 	   	     	  Cheers,
>> 					Nuno
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
>> | equivalent? For example, all those super computers made up of 1000's
>> of
>> | linux PC nodes, how do they monitor their console outputs?
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