[Beowulf] recommendation on crash cart for a cluster room: full cluster KVM is not an option I suppose?

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 09:55:21 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Skylar Thompson <skylar at cs.earlham.edu> wrote:
> Rahul Nabar wrote:

>
> You could use Wake-on-LAN to turn a system on, but I don't think you can
> reset or power off the system. What ever you use should give you some
> authentication/authorization and hopefully encryption so that you don't
> have just anyone rebooting systems. IPMI 1.5+ will do this, but
> Wake-on-LAN does not.

Ah! I see, I didn't realize that difference. Thanks, Skylar.

-- 
Rahul



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