non video console output

[adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org (Stephen Adler)]

I'm looking into IPMI and it looks like there are only two motherboards
which support it. The intel server motherboards S3XXX S5XXX etc. and
the super micro motherboards, not sure what the model names are. Is this
correct? The IPMI looks to be like a special add on to the motherboards, not
like I can go out and buy an IPMI card and plug it into any motherboard and
away I go... Is that right?

Cheers. Steve.

Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:
> IPMI ?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
>
> If you can't use IPMI, a friend of mine used a neat solution if you
> have more than one computer running: connect a pair of serial ports
> together using a null cable modem, so that you can monitor one
> computer from the other. You can make a chain of connection so that
> you can monitor more than 2 computers: basically you access the
> console of the 'next' computer using a terminal emulator from the
> 'previous' computer, like a linked-list kind of arrangement.
>
> 	   	     	  Cheers,
> 					Nuno
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> | equivalent? For example, all those super computers made up of 1000's of 
> | linux PC nodes, how do they monitor their console outputs?
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