[Info-vax] VSI and Process Software announcement

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <ns9j15$b32$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris  <syseng at gfsys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Sun Sparc machines have this capability for years, with a
>separate management embedded processor and associated network
>based ilom port. That supports http or ssh access and can
>monitor and control all aspects of machine operation. There is
>also a serial management port offering a subset of the same
>functionality.
>
>Proliants may have some of this as well, though haven't used
>it...

Proliants and Dell machines have it, using a standard ILO interface
processor from Intel.  It is very, very standardized across platforms
and works well.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."