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[edit] Generic approach

We need talk of standards and a more generic discussion and name for all this stuff, to incorporate the various approaches e.g. as described at [1], including these:

IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), HP (Profile, Products, Articles) iLO (Integrated Lights Out), Dell (Profile, Products, Articles) RAC (Remote Access Card), IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) RSA (Remote Supervisor Adapter), Sun ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Manager), and both IBM’s (Profile, Products, Articles) and HP’s blade management solutions.

--NealMcB 20:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Browser compatibility

There's no mention of the severe restrictions on browser compatibility imposed by the various versions of the DRAC. My experience with DRAC 5 and 4 is that browser compatibility is very spotty, and that generally there are things that are broken even if you're using the preferred version of Internet Explorer on Windows. Trying to use Firefox on Linux or another architecture is very hard and generally broken.

I'm going to look for the officially DRAC browser list and add that to the article.

Dbackeberg (talk) 17:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• Officially, the claim is that Firefox on Linux is supported. There's a catch. To initially install the plugins, Firefox needs to run as root, as it needs the ability to grant the plugin permissions to make directories and copy files into the system-wide Firefox plugins directory. Alternatively, a Linux admin could grant exceptional permissions on the plugins directory. This isn't ordinarily a problem for Windows, because Windows users generally run as a very strong privileged user. Not so for linux users.

Dbackeberg (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)