Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
On 11/15/2011 05:55 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
On 11/15/2011 05:23 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Timothy Murphygayleard@eircom.net wrote:
'Desktop' is in contrast to 'server'. On a server, you only reboot to load a new kernel and you never use the console display, rarely change
Oh, I dunno - it's not infrequently that I have to plug in a monitor-on-a-stick....
Supermicro boards come with IPMI on-board these days so you can do all
<snip> I understand you love your Supermicro boards. Fine. There's no way we're going to replace everything, which is what you seem to be suggesting. I would also need more ports, to plug in the IPMI interfaces on the boxes we have.
Look (and, officially, I am speaking for myself, not my employer nor the US federal government), this is a US gov't agency. Why don't you call your Congresscritter and Senator, and tell them you personally want to donate the money to replace everything we have that doesn't have IPMI, and pay for the time install and cable it all up? That would be *great*... of course, some of our latest servers have 48 cores, and we just got some 64 core servers, so it might cost you a pretty penny....
Oh, yes, and then there's the official requirement that I be here during business hours.
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