[lug] remote management hardware?

[karl horlen]

I have a related question.  I understand what IPMI is and why it's useful. But I never understood how it implements login security.  Does it allow you to configure ssh with key'd auth?  If not it would seem easy to ping on the known port and gain access via dictionary.  If it's not using ssh, what secure auth method is b/c the way i understand you use some client sw to talk to the remote board?

thanks

--- On Sat, 4/9/11, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lug] remote management hardware?
> To: "Lug mailing list" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 11:00 AM
> An upcoming move means I will no
> longer be able to show up onsite to
> deal with OS failures, so I'm trying to research remote
> management
> hardware, preferably of the sort which can be added or
> attached to an
> existing server, rather than the sort which is built in to
> the
> motherboard.
> 
> Do any of you have any recommendations about these sorts of
> devices?
> Or should I take advantage of one server's
> recently-demonstrated
> flakiness, and buy a motherboard with ILO (or something
> similar) built
> in?
> 
> Calvin Dodge
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