On 9/17/2016 3:25 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: > Never used IPMI in my life and while I thought it was cool when I > heard about it, had no plans to. > > Just built a home server (while out of town) using a SUPERMICRO > MBD-X10SLM+-F-O > > I put an nVidia 405 based video card in it but it may be bad. > > When I power it on, I get some beeps but they are different than the > no memory beeps (I intentionally powered on w/o memory to hear those) > and I think what may be happening is normal boot process but no video > simply because the card (bought used) may be bad. > > Before I go and try to find a retailer that still carries VGA cables, > is there a way via the boards IPMI interface (it has ethernet port > just for that) to connect from my CentOS 7 laptop and see if the > machine is normally powering on? > > I saw some IPMI packages exist for CentOS 7 but I don't know if this > is what they are for. > > And it seems there are OpenIPMI and freeimpi packages. Are those just > different ways of doing same thing or do they serve different purposes? the supermicro IPMI has a webserver, you can connect to it with a web browser, and can do remote console, remote media... the remote console requires java support in your web browser. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz