Jan 18 2010
iLO is a management interface supporting SSH, available on HP Proliant servers. It provides interesting features such as remotely powering the server on and off. HP released access to Windows in graphics mode through a license, surprisingly. However, Microsoft has developed – for Windows 2003 and 2008 server – Emergency Management Services (EMS) that lets [...]
Dec 31 2009
iLO is a management interface supporting SSH, available on HP Proliant servers. It provides interesting features such as remotely powering the server on and off. But it is also possible to access the Linux console and reboot in single mode remotely. How handy is that!? BIOS While booting up, press F9 to go in [...]
Apr 19 2008
Disabling Image Files Xen usually stores running domains in /var/lib/xen/save, causing a /var full on many systems when dom0 is shut down. Edit /etc/sysconfig/xendomains or /etc/default/xendomains and replace "XENDOMAINS_SAVE=/var/lib/xen/save" with "XENDOMAINS_SAVE=" This sends a shutdown signal to all virtual machines before dom0 reboots. A 300 second timeout is defined before killing an OS that hangs [...]