I have set up Intel ME (v11.8.92) and use MeshCommander for access.
The remote deskop (KVM) works well, as long as I have an external monitor connected in the VGA port. But if I disconnect the external monitor (also with a power cycle), the KVM screen remains black. Sometimes I get a single blinking dash at the very beginning (where there should be the BIOS).
Is this normal? And is there a setting to enable KVM regardless of whether external display is connected?
Does IPMI always include KVM? Is it always able to mount remote .ISO's and show viewport image?
If I have a server with only power and ethernet coming out the back, and suddenly I need to adjust BIOS settings, I gotta plug in a keyboard/monitor/mouse somehow. Either the servers are all on KVM switches of some kind (useful, but expensive) or I gotta bring the server to the keyboard/monitor/mouse or vice versa.
I almost always have a laptop with me, and it has a keyboard, monitor, and mouse built-in. Why can't I use that?
I'd like a way to plug the laptop in to the VGA and USB ports of a server, and have the console.
Is there a way to do that?
Anyone know of a good replacement for Synergy2 that is cross platform and open source? I've been looking around since I upgraded to Win7 which Synergy2 doesn't play well with - which doesn't surprise me since it doesn't look like there has been active development since 2006.
We had a bunch of Windows 2008 servers configured by a tech, then racked with and hooked up to an IP KVM. Unforunately, the monitor used during configuration was a widescreen LCD, and now Windows is initialized to a resolution out of range for the KVM as well as the screen onsite.
We found that we can edit HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet... and then reboot the machines. But I'd prefer not to have to make all of them reboot.
Is there a way to restart the video driver or otherwise change the console resolution remotely, without a reboot?