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SuperMicro still uses applets and Web Start to run their IPMI client. Surely there's a better way.

by voltagex_ 11y ago

bcg1 11y ago
According the announcement they are not getting rid of Web Start.
wtallis 11y ago
There are plenty of better ways, and SuperMicro could have been using them all along. Their IPMI client is a PITA that is absolutely not an argument in favor of keeping around the technologies it depends on.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Yeah, but I've only got a piddly little pseudo-enterprise grade system [1] that probably won't get any more updates. I still want to retain the functionality. Are the protocol extensions that SuperMicro use on top of IPMI (particularly the virtual CD-ROM) documented / supported by any other utilities. I did notice I get booted off the virtual console if I log out of the web interface - I hope the session itself isn't initiated by Java. [1]: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1srm-2558f.cfm http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1sr...
  - toast0 11y ago
    It's not too much work to script downloading the webstart file, and then launching that. We did that at work because it was too to get it to run from a browser anyway. (And we run javaws in a VM because it's too hard to run java in the native environment too.. sigh)
    - voltagex_ 11y ago
      You have to authenticate to the IPMI address first, right?
      - toast0 11y ago
        Yes, the script posts the user/password to the ipmi http(s) server to get the jnlp file (which includes an embedded credential that's tied to the http(s) session)
ams6110 11y ago
There is. Command line.