Lights-out management on Intel Xserves 101

When running Intel Xserves and using the lights-out management of the Xserves (I’ll write more about configuring this in a later post), you should not use the security locking mechanism at the front of the xserve. Otherwise your xserve on restarts won’t reboot but instead stay down.

It took us 2 hours and several missed restarts to figure that out

Some more links about the LOM:

http://www.apple.com/xserve/management.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304870

http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=2007021110182949

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_management

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