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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > > The pc-weasel does not work in all motherboards also. It does require a 5volt 32bit pci slot. and a ps/2 keyboard port, and it won't work with an ami-winbios among other things... In many respects the weasel is begining to show it's age, but many other remote management cards I've used or attempted to use over the years (compaq lights-out, ami-megarac) have either gone off the market, required proprietary manangement software or were heavily geared towards mananging windows boxen (I absolutely refuse to remotely co-locate windows machines). The killer feature (that I'm willing to pay monay for for one of these products) is having a unit that can remotely power-cycle the box when the os is totally hung. We used to do this (and still do), with serially controlled power-strips but so many of the machines we sre buying take redundant power sources, so that you end up needing twice as many remote power-strips in order to turn off one box. In all fairness to AMI they have a new management card which I have not evaluated which they claim is 100% os independant, and has additional oob connectivty options and battery backup. it also weighs in around $600. > K > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [email protected] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
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