On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:32:01AM -0500, John Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 11:04 -0500, Don Wright wrote:
>
> > Just teleport into the datacenter on the other side of the planet, or the
> > office building where your after-hours key card doesn't work because all
> > cards were cancelled following the alleged burglary last week*, or do some
> > other Herculean task, and insert that healing potion.
>
> One acronym. IPMI. When it is truly important, use real server
> hardware designed to be remotely managed. In a worst case scenario like
> you describe you might need a Windows PC on your end to use the full
> featured vendor supplied IPMI client tools that let you remote mount a
> USB stick or CD to a machine but it can do it. Of course now they are
> pushing the almost entirely closed Intel AMT stuff. Bleh.
IPMI is presuably the same protocol described as "The most dangerous
protocol you've never heard of"?
http://www.itworld.com/article/2708437/security/ipmi--the-most-dangerous-protocol-you-ve-never-heard-of.html>
-- hendrik