On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:
2. A remote
controller would be sweet in our current facility. But
we are going to move to a facility with the following features -- (1)
24 hour a day remote "hands on" service (2) geographically close to me
and my employees so that we can physically drive over (more on this
later today or tomorrow after I tour one more facility).
You also get fairly cheap video adapter cards with serial output. Which gives
you access to bios, the boot procedure, etc.
Any server class motherboard BIOS will have "BIOS Console Redirection". It
is rather stupid and crappy, but it *does* work and doesn't cost 1000$.
I'm using this on Tyan S2721-533's right now. (the onboard video is disabled.)
(And my S2460 dual athlon "desktop" too.)
--Ricky