[Beowulf] Remote console management

[Randy Wright]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, John Hearns wrote:

> IPMI does support Serial-over-LAN, but I don't have experience with it,
> I'm not sure Linux does this.
> 

We have serial over Lan on an power PC blade center cluster. There is no
problem with linux. You just have to put the apropos lines in the
bootloader configuration to redirect the console to the right serial
device. We are using Redhat AS4 and the boot loader is yaboot.

--randy


Randy Wright
Senior Systems Administrator
ITS/eServices
New York University
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