On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:15:23 -0400
"Matt Shields" <
mattboston@...> wrote:
> The ILO's have a DC input for an extra power brick. So even if you
> the main power cables were pulled, it's still possible to get into the
> ILO, which would have an alert that says it's main power source has
> been lost. The ILO's are nice, but I found they cost more to use
> them. I won't run lower end switches just to maintain a KVM network,
> when I used them in the past I put them on my regular enterprise class
> switches on a different VLAN. Once you figured in the cost of the ILO
> license, the extra network ports, the extra power ports for the brick,
> it did cost more than a KVM solution.
In my experience, the ILO port is dead when you remove power, and there
is no licensing that I am aware of. However, there is an additional
management module you can license from HP, but the basic ILO, AFAIK,
does not require a license.
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