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This looks like a nice alternative to the proprietary ilo/drac especially for home or remote site use. Is this running a bog standard Rasberry Pi OS and an ope
by LinuxBender 4y ago
This looks like a nice alternative to the proprietary ilo/drac especially for home or remote site use.
Is this running a bog standard Rasberry Pi OS and an open source firmware? Can the owner run a command to drop to a root shell, configure firewall rules, etc? Asking because Dell made it much harder to get a root shell on the dracs and the enterprise cards have hard coded creds this is not documented. Is the KVM interface using HTML5?
- jaywalk 4y agoThe card itself isn't running anything. You just add a bog-standard rPi CM4 running PiKVM (https://pikvm.org/ https://pikvm.org/). You can accomplish the same thing with a regular rPi running PiKVM externally.
- LinuxBender 4y agoPerfect, thankyou for the clarification. That makes sense now given its an add-on board. It's been ages since I looked into network KVM. The DIY/consumer options seem to have evolved quite a bit.
- jaywalk 4y agoThere are some nice options out there. I use a DIY TinyPilot build, and have been pretty happy with it.
- geerlingguy 4y agoYeah, PiKVM is quite nice these days. It also defaults to booting in a minimal readonly filesystem, so running it off a microSD card isn't an issue either.