On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We're about to order a new Compaq DL380 to be our district's Web > server. It will be running Linux of course. The head geek here wants > to buy a Compaq Remote Insight Board for the machine so it can be > managed remotely. His main concern is that he doesn't know Linux and > is afraid that if something goes wrong he won't be able to fix it. I > have some concerns about having to secure yet another access point > to the server. Basically, this board is like it's own little > computer with a NIC and a tiny Web server that any client can access > from a browser. It does support SSL. If it only manages hardware, not a biggie. If it tries to manage anything else, you'll likely have problems. Just make sure he doesn't try to reboot the machine remotely unless you can send the CTRL-ALT-DEL signal to the host OS. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010213/55ee26fd/attachment.pgp