Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:55:48 -0800 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media Message-ID: <e277d6c80912120255v43e0f638ndd7e2052c44ec7fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912092136470.1812@freeman.4gh.net> References: <20091208174145.GA14312@mr-happy.com> <20091208175219.GA56219@icarus.home.lan> <4B1EAF01.2030803@icyb.net.ua> <20091208195752.GF14312@mr-happy.com> <4B1ECEC0.2070005@quip.cz> <D6594712549049F281604E26857F27F0@multiplay.co.uk> <4B1EECCD.7020200@denninger.net> <4B1EF850.10604@quip.cz> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912092136470.1812@freeman.4gh.net>
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 20:07 -0000, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the >> a... >> >> I have iLO card in HP ML110 G5 and Virtual Media doesn't work at >> all. Virtual device is not detected by FreeBSD nor in BIOS, so I >> can't even boot from it. >> >> Virtual Media (console) on Sun Fire X2100 M2 is accessible only by >> IP address, not by its domain name (I reported it to Sun >> Microsystems 11 month ago and Sun leaves it unfixed. >> >> In Virtual Console of Supermicro, there is problem with keyboard >> input in sysinstall prior to FreeBSD 8.x >> >> So I am disapointed by this hyped feature ;( > > Does anyone here find this stuff useful? Virtual Media is usually crap, in my experience. It's slow as hell and bugg= y. > We have a vendor pushing "Virtual Media" on us and I don't see the > point at all. =A0I also don't see the point of the screen scraping and > graphics virtual display support. > > I've just started playing with IPMI capable motherboard and another > system with an IPMI add in card. =A0Seems like at lot of extra stuff I > need to disable to secure my operations. =A0nmap shows ssh, http, https, > portmap and some other ports of unknown purpose (plus the silly thing > was configured to send email to the manufacture). =A0The web interface > is a little useful, but not when dealing with several hundred systems. I've never even seen an IPMI web interface. I found IPMI handy (when it worked) when it came to rebooting a frozen server - although you're running FreeBSD, so that shouldn't be a problem. ;) It's also nice for detecting hardware faults. Clearly it's something that needs to be carefully configured for your environment. > All I think I really want is basic (secure, encrypted) IPMI 2.0 to > read system status (power, temperature, fan status, etc) and be able > to power cycle the thing into a network PXE boot. > > The Serial Over Lan stuff looks useful but overly complicated (I come > from a background where we used terminal servers for console access). > I would rather see no video board in the system at all, but nobody > seems to know how to build these boards anymore. SoL works sometimes. It's another one of those slightly buggy things that you can't always count on. It *looks* useful, but usually if your machine is in a bad state - when you need it most - it's not going to work. -- randi
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