Hook up ethernet, if its not POE, you plug it in, attach all the various usb cables, vga, serial, ps/2, ect ect to the server and let it hang. When your server is unresponsive just go ahead and hit the IP you assigned to your Spider, and you get a full console, virtual media, mass storage emulation, and the ability to mount samba shares and what not into it. On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > Steven Crothers wrote: > > > You should invest in a Spider KVM or similar, they hang off the back and > > don't use any rack space. They can also be POE, so they wont use a plug. > > That'll provide you out of band management and remote reboots and what > > not. > > How exactly would that work? > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Steven Crothers steven.crothers at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110704/833f13f2/attachment-0005.html>