Supermicro IPMI KVM
Currently, you have a tool for remote IPMI-commands.
I would love to have support for kvm directly, instead of using Supermicros java-ipmi-viewer. Java is now almost removed from browsers and having some kind of integrated java or something to make it possible to remote access IPMI would help a lot! For newer machines, Supermicro offers html5-viewers, but there is a ton of machines that don't have this.
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Hi,
Have you tried the embedded Chrome web connection?
Regards
David Hervieux
Yes, but it shows "Browser has no Java!". It's just a time before every vendor has removed Java. I think FF dropped support completely on 20th this month, it's not even possible to install it in the browser. Suspect the same thing happened with Chrome now. Currently, it kind of work with older versions of IE, but probably not for long and one get security warnings/errors from the web-interface and so on. I suspect there are ways to initiate the java-request without the browser and get the KVM, but I'm not sure how.
I also think a more native, direct IPMI would be good. Some custom web-software offers this (not been able to test), but even better to have it all in your program. Suspect that the same kind of code is used in HP, Dell, IBM etc?
I'm pretty sure that if you use our Chrome integration it will support Html5.
Regards
David Hervieux
All moderne browsers do, but supermicro ipmi-kvm does not. Only the last year they have started shipping ipmi cards that work with html5. So expensive equipment that may last 7-8 years are almost useless, because supermicro doesn't provide updated firmware (since they don't care/have interest in people having the servers for a kong time).