Re: out-of-band management

This does not answer your question directly but the recent PowerEdge
servers we have (650, 1750 and 2650) all support console redirection to
the serial port so you can connect to them remotely using a serial
console concentrator and manage them just like Sun boxes with no
monitor/keyboard.  If you have telnet enabled power strips you can also
power-cycle the boxes remotely.  I'm currently working on getting this
all set up at our site so I can't vouch for how well it works long-term
but I've been testing it out for a few weeks now and it seems to be
working pretty well.  The only glitch I ran into so far is inability to
send Delete/Insert keys to the RAID Utility over a serial console, but
that may only be Minicom's fault... 
Also, I was actually pleasantly surprised to discover that Redhat EL3
installed very easily using nothing but a serial console and set itself 
and grub up for proper serial console usage.

HTH,

-Herman

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 05:39, Jerker Nyberg wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It is possible to do out-of-band management over ethernet for the current
> generation of Dell servers? (regardless of operating system state)
> 
> I am interested in remote power-on, power-off, reset and console (serial
> over LAN for BIOS/POST and OS startup).
> 
> I am not interested in the DRAC management card - I want the functionality
> integrated in the motherboard. According to my technical sales contact at