On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:25:46PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org [070504 02:18]:
On paper, IPMI is a great idea. The implementations I've seen suck royally.
Too bad. :(
I am appreciating the PowerPC coprocessor in some IBM eServers that speaks serial, also when the server is powered off, even more now.
Sun has these too, on the boards made by Newisys.
Yeah. There's a whole different class of hardware like HP's ILO, Dell's DRAC, and IBM and Sun's offerings mentioned above. These things are much more serious than IPMI, but often not quite bug free (HP's ILO for instance doesn't do Explicit Congestion Notification right, and the web interface is, well, not the most reliable...). But they are more reliable than any IPMI imlementation I've seen, that's for sure. They still suffer from the fact that they are little proprietary machines that behave in sometimes unpredictable ways, and that can not be fixed by anyone but the manufacturer. Proprietary software...
Thanks, Ward.