We run a group of dl480's and run linux... I dont see why he would want buy the remote card for a linux box. Id ask what the advantages of the card would be, the only imdediate one i saw was a 'cold reboot when system is not responding'. If they want a graphical remote console, use VNC, and as far as i know you can do everything else remotely with native linux features. If you need a back door, for emergencies or for lower level access, throw in a terminal server. I have a dell remote access card in my personal box (which is linux, and co-lo'd) and I have never needed it, infact its not even configured. It seems that it could cause more problems and consume and extra IP, for features that you can get other places. just my 2cents. ps, we had some evil problems with running linux on the compaq dl480's. There were some major PCI bus problems that compaq was having. We found out that they know about them and didnt bother to tell us... We have spent about 6 weeks negotiating with them trying to get something out of them for the work we did for THEM! lots of time trouble shooting and diagnosing their faulty Hardware. duncan On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We're about to order a new Compaq DL380 to be our district's Web server. It > will be running Linux of course. The head geek here wants to buy a Compaq > Remote Insight Board for the machine so it can be managed remotely. His main > concern is that he doesn't know Linux and is afraid that if something goes > wrong he won't be able to fix it. I have some concerns about having to > secure yet another access point to the server. Basically, this board is like > it's own little computer with a NIC and a tiny Web server that any client > can access from a browser. It does support SSL. > > More details at http://www.compaq.com/manage/remote-lightsout.html > > Anybody used one of these? Any comments? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- || || || || || || duncan shannon .-. duncan at sodatrain.com /v\ // \\ /( )\ L I N U X ^^-^^ >Phear the Penguin<