On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:31:24AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
Well, the nice thing I like about Sun hardware is that you have remote serial console access all the way down to the BIOS. This, to me, is a key issue in supporting any critical system. This way I don't have to drive into the data center to fix things if at all possible.
Actually, a lot of the higher end x86 boxes have stolen this idea, including at least Dell and HP. It's a little mini system with it's own CPU, memory, NIC, etc that can give you access to the power switch, a virtual KVM, and a virtual floppy and CD for recovery purposes. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC