[RndTbl] Recommendations for IP KVM switches

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Mon Mar 9 16:01:44 CDT 2015


Howdy folks.

We've got a bit of money to spend before budget year-end, and I thought 
it might be nice to finally do something more orderly about remote 
console access to some of our servers.  (Right now, we have some systems 
with ILOM/ALOM, some on small local-only KVM, and some with no remote 
management capability at all.)

We're looking at probably a couple 8-port units for a couple different 
racks.  We're somewhat concerned about costs, of course, but want 
something reasonable in terms of features.  (E.g. remote authentication 
through various means like RADIUS & AD would be nice.)

Anyone with experience with particular brands of IP-accessible KVM's? 
Any recommendations on what to get?  What to avoid? ;)  (Canadian 
supplier would be preferred.)

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Gilbert E. Detillieux		E-mail:	<gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science	Web:	http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
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