Re: Workarounds for remote viewing POST or BIOS activity on headless device

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/16 noughtomate <balraj_jassal@xxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, for the lengthy thread description, but the title says it all.
>
> I've just finished building a rack mount server which I will be keep
in my
> Node Zero under the stairs. This is headless, i.e. I do not have a
monitor
> attached to it.
>
> I have no problems access my server using RDP connection to the
Windows
> based OS.  However, I am still tweaking it here and there and
occasionally
> need to change settings in the BIOS or need to run disk image restores
> against the system disk (which is run outside windows). For these
scenario's
> I am unable to see the activity as my RDP session is limited to
Windows.
>
> I would imagine every server room team would have the same problems.
Is
> there any known method to access a remote PC while it is in POST or
BIOS
> configuration screens ?
>
> Due to confined space, the simplicity of using a regular sized monitor
is
> not an option to me. I would hope there is a software based solution
around
> this.
>
> If there is no option other than to use a monitor, I would prefer
something
> small (say 9") I could also use with my HTPC. I've checked out
the Samsung
> U70 (see here : http://tinyurl.com/no7tjw) which looks
nice and is cheap,
> but looks like it'll only work from within Windows as it's data source
is
> entirely via USB.
>

I've got a AMI MegaRac G2 on the shelf at home -
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaRACG2_spec.pdf
- if you're interested
drop in it  me an email.

Other thing that you may be able to do is redirect the console to the
serial
port and then access it via serial (somehow!)

Cheers

Andy

<http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaRACG2_spec.pdf>


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