The benefit is when you have a huge number of servers arround the world you can manage them from a few locations without having to have someone go physically touch them. Bonus points they often allow for remote wiping and provisioning, it makes it possible for a few peoole to manage the entier life of a server without ever touching it. This is a lot cheaper than flying people out to each site whenever something goes wrong.
Right — that’s why I’m talking about a PMU and serial device server linked to a serial console and BIOS as an alternative. That’s another way to accomplish that.
My guess was that IPMI might provide a more-standardized interface, and notabot said that this was the case.
The benefit is when you have a huge number of servers arround the world you can manage them from a few locations without having to have someone go physically touch them. Bonus points they often allow for remote wiping and provisioning, it makes it possible for a few peoole to manage the entier life of a server without ever touching it. This is a lot cheaper than flying people out to each site whenever something goes wrong.
Right — that’s why I’m talking about a PMU and serial device server linked to a serial console and BIOS as an alternative. That’s another way to accomplish that.
My guess was that IPMI might provide a more-standardized interface, and notabot said that this was the case.