[Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-06-23 kl. 21:51, skrev Hans Bachner:
> Stephen Hoffman schrieb am 23.06.2021 um 18:58:
>> On 2021-06-22 23:27:16 +0000, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Out of band server management like ILO's, DRAC including remote power 
>>> mgmt. strategies has been around for decades (early 1980's).
>>
>> [...]
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>> Remote management was something comparatively new for OpenVMS folks, 
>> first arriving with Itanium for many of the OpenVMS sites around.
> 
> Actually, there was the RMC (remote management console) on various Alphas - 
> I think starting around the AlphaServer 4100 and friends. It also included 
> remote power on/off among other things.

Maybe RMC gave some additional functions compared with the basic console.
But I have successfuly managed our DS20e Alpha servers remotely by just
having access to the concole port using a terminal server for each server.
Including configuring the FC access to the corporate SAN system using
that "nice" WWIDMGR tool...


> 
> Given that this effort startet in the last millenium, the RMC was accessed 
> through a serial port (not via network as today). You could connect this 
> port to a DECserver and access the DECserver either locally over the 
> network or remotely via a modem.

Just as the console port itself. But of course, direct network access is
what everyone expects today...


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>>> [...]
> 
> Hans.