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On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 23:30 +0800, Jerome Macaranas wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> You can't change BIOS settings or deal with boot time problems from an X</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> desktop, or SSH connection.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Because of their nature don't all IP-KVMs support authentication? I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> would also expect them to support SSL or some form of encryption too.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">yes they do... but I want to have some other challenges... I dont want to rely </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">only on the vendor's security... ATEN for example can be accessed via </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">HTTPS.. and ACLs</FONT>
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I'm with you there, but I give a little if it makes sense.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> We use IBM's remote service adapter, which has a built-in KVM and power</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> switch, etc. We don't allow access to it from the Internet at large. A</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> VPN connection is required (or an SSH tunnel.)</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">your using the KVM module on the blade center?</FONT>
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Yes, we have customers that are. They don't access it outside of their own network though.<BR>
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The RSA card that I speak of is for the bulk of the systems that we support. As an IBM vendor we put in an RSA card for remote management on standalone and rackmount servers. They are cheap enough (far less than MSRP) that we are now putting them in all servers we ship.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Without a firewall, you would have to rely on the vendor's security.</FONT>
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