> We're using plenty of the closely related S5000PAL m/b with various > Xeons and we're very happy with them. That's good to know. > > p Remote management - Intel Remote Management Module 2 - AXXRM2 > > We tried this and decided it's not worth having (vs the piggybacked > IPMI on that m/b). We found that RMM's power control sometimes doesn't > work (usually when you need it!). Also it's very tricky indeed to use > down an ssh tunnel. OTOH if you need the remote device functionality > there's not really any alternative. I also have out-of-band power control, so that shouldn't be a problem. I assume that anything that borked the system so badly the AXXRMM2 couldn't power it off isn't going to be made worse by pulling the plug. I'll be building one of these systems as a test box before I go and order the parts for the other 2 (primary, backup, hot spare) so if the management card is a wast of money, I'll omit it from the other two builds. At under $170 it's a very small part of the cost of the first build. [I have 4 Tyan M8239's which were completely non-functional on the Tyan S2721-533 motherboards in the current systems, so I definite- ly learned my lesson there.] Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com terry_at_tmk.com New York, NY USAReceived on Sun Jan 25 2009 - 01:44:07 UTC
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