Re: Would you recommend NetBSD for??

["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd%syndicat.com@localhost>]

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Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> schrieb:

>We do have drivers for IPMI, as well as a wealth of hardware sensors
>(particularly the ACPI ones).  We don't have drivers for some of the
>proprietary baseboard management solutions like IBM IMM or HP ILO; but
>given the way those work, the OS drivers are really used primarily for
>tasks like reloading the controller firmware, which I am personally of
>the opinion one should never do on a production host!

Thank you for the details. Did not tried the ipmi drivers of NetBSD in the past 
(have seen ipmi in kernel config) - so this is really nice to hear. ß)

How far is cciss / HP / compaq smart array provided att - especially the 
management functionality as HP provides that i.e. with the hpacucli tool?


Best regards,


Niels.

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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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