From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 02:49:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E0F16A58D for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80C143D5E for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 312A3290C29; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60533-07; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926B9290C1E; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E11A3B934; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC0538BC5; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:37 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:37 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: David Kelly In-Reply-To: <20060625021254.GB57553@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Message-ID: <20060624234317.D1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060624215742.N1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060625021254.GB57553@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:49:37 -0000 On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, David Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:03:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> I'm currently weighing options ... my last two servers were HP >> Proliant, and I *really* like them, but I might have a line on a >> supplier in Panama that deals in Dell Servers and not HP ... >> >> Looking at Dell's web site, the PowerEdge has an optional "Remote >> Access Controller" that will it *sounds* like will give me similar >> functionality as HPs iLO ... > > Am not familiar with either, but are you sure this is hardware and not > Windows specific software? I'm not 100% certain, after reading the following 'article' about it from 2002, but my feel is that the only "requirement" is that I run Windows IE to access the interface ... I know with iLO, there is nothing OS related that I have to install to make use of it, but I'm not certain with DRAC ... http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps2q02_bell?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664