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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Great product - Virtual KVM
By Mike
I bought this card because I use ILO at work and wanted to see if this was similar. It is. Unlike ILO you get the virtual KVM with the card. Once you install you can remove the keyboard, mouse, and monitor from your HP Microserver. The server won't recognize them as it is looking at the KVM unit. As most of us don't have a DNS server at home you might want to add the name to your hosts file or give it a static IP so you can get to it easier. Just a note, there's no documentation. The default login name is admin and the password is password. I was able to glean that from a review someplace. Beyond that it works. The product looks nothing like the picture associated with it by Amazon.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.Great addition to the MicroServer
By John McCoy
Easy to setup, very usefull for remote support. Provides a web based interface to many SNMP features like temperature and fan speeds. Also provides a java based remote control session that gets you directly to the console even during boot up. You can get into bios setting via remote session and have the ability to power cycle the server.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Works very well
By mrsteveman1
Using this with the N36L model, it works really well.The card itself appears to be run by a small custom processor made by Aspeed, I'm assuming they have stock firmware for it that their partners (like HP) customize for specific server models etc. The ethernet port is run by a Broadcom chip and hasn't yet caused me any trouble, hasn't dropped out as some have reported etc. Time will tell on that one.The VGA port however is its own thing inside the Aspeed chip, when the card is installed that port becomes the only video port, the one on the mainboard is disabled by the bios. It works this way so the card can encode the console video for KVM purposes.The firmware on the card is Linux running on an ARM core of some kind, if you wire up a serial port to one of the headers on the card you can actually watch it boot and poke around, though I haven't done this myself.The KVM was my primary interest and it works really well, though I've only used it as a text console (freebsd is installed on the server). It's a Java applet that launches from your browser, and it has some OS-dependent libraries it needs for the mouse (for accurate movement, it works without them but poorly), other than that it seems to work anywhere.I've been using the KVM on OS X 10.8 launching it via Safari (chrome doesn't like the JNLP file, tries to download it). It doesn't run IN the browser, it uses java web start to launch itself in another application, and that application then just keeps running regardless of what the browser is doing.I have not been able to get the virtual media thing to work, it may require OS-dependent libraries to function at all (the JNLP file for this feature suggests that to be the case). I also haven't needed it, it's much easier to just leave an OS install disk in a CD drive or attached to the server itself via USB stick, because you can then go into the bios remotely and boot from it if you need to.The web interface is a bit oddly organized (too many sections, poorly aligned section titles etc), and in certain cases with the browsers I tested (Chrome and Safari on OS X 10.8) it will flake out and keep you from logging in again until you clear cookies and such (which has always worked for me so far). It does work for resetting and powering on/off the server remotely, monitoring temps, fans etc. It has a feature that will email you if an event happens but the SMTP mailer does not support authentication (which Gmail and most others require).There is an SSH console running in the card itself, i presume this is an IPMI shell but haven't done much with it yet.The card itself can be accessed from the operating system on the server via IPMI, this is how your OS would find out fan speeds, temperatures etc. I haven't been able to get it to work in FreeBSD but it apparently works in Linux.Definitely worth the cheap price just for that KVM, HP needs to update the firmware though as there are obvious bugs.
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