> so that you can handle things like BIOS configuration fully remotely. Yeah, the important distinction here is that these devices somewhat fulfill the role of

> so that you can handle things like BIOS configuration fully remotely. Yeah, the important distinction here is that these devices somewhat fulfill the role of a standalone IPMI[1] device. IPMI is typically built into server motherboard (SuperMicro) which allows an administrator to reboot a machine or configure BIOS over a network. Your typical KVM does not feature this. However, where these lack is that they still require a video card. IPMI built into a motherboard can run on an entirely headless system. There are also commercial versions of this, such as the Lantronix Spider KVM over IP[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen... [2] https://www.lantronix.com/products/lantronix-spider/ https://www.lantronix.com/products/lantronix-spider/