On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:30:15PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/6/2010 12:05 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, nate<centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > >> No out of band management? > > My thoughts exactly. All servers should have this these days, be it > > an integrated card or an IP-based KVM. > But, on the other hand they should never need it, except perhaps when > installing the OS if you don't use a full-auto method or clone disks. All hardware sucks, all software sucks. Your machine _will_ go wrong and you _will_ need remote console access and remote power ability. Especially if you have thousands of these things. -- rgds Stephen