Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:25:26 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060628192325.D43909@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0606281429h5ff56a1elad350c9927ce6823@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <cone.1151484180.608204.14057.5001@35st-server.simplicato.com> <20060628131353.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> <8C7F19A3-647E-4FF1-9FEB-7B7DC426AB14@shire.net> <20060628160833.T43909@ganymede.hub.org> <33F146CC-B09E-47C9-A8A4-A493931CA2BB@shire.net> <ef10de9a0606281429h5ff56a1elad350c9927ce6823@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> wrote: >> > [deleted] >> >> --- >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider >> chad at shire.net > > Do you offer Xen hosting Chad?.. and back on topic... What's the point > of iLO Marc? What's wrong with having your server text message your > cell phone and then you ssh in and check what's wrong / fix it? If > it's a hardware problem you'll have to show up anyways, right? iLO allows me to power cycle my server, re-install the operating system, access the BIOS, access the console, etc ... all operating system independent (or with no operating system installed at all) ... the only 'hands on' I need is, as you put it, to replace hardware that might go wrong, but, for instance, with 'just a serial console', like the non-HP servers, I have to get a remote tech to power cycle whenever the deadlocks I'm experiencing right now happen ... with iLO, I login to the iLO CLI, and tell the server to reboot itself ... ---- 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
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