Compaq ProLiant DL380 Generation 2 Setup and Installation Guide

5-4 Compaq ProLiant DL380 Generation 2 Server Setup and Installation Guide
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Features
The Remote Insight board offers the following features:
■ Virtual graphical remote console
The Remote Insight board provides embedded hardware graphical
remote console capabilities that turn any standard browser into a virtual
desktop, giving the user full control over the host server’s display,
keyboard, and mouse. The operating system independent console
supports text and graphic modes, displaying remote host server
activities, such as shutdown and startup operations.
■ Power cycle (Reset)
This feature is available on all ProLiant servers that the Remote Insight
board supports. If the remote host server is not responding, this feature
enables an administrator to initiate a cold reboot to bring the server back
online.
■ Virtual floppy drive
With the virtual floppy drive, an administrator can easily direct a remote
host server to boot and use a standard 1.44 MB diskette from anywhere
on the network, thus saving time and increasing efficiency by
eliminating the need to visit a remote server just to insert and use a
diskette. This feature allows administrators to carry out any of the
following functions remotely:
G Running Compaq User Diagnostics on remote host servers
G Applying ROMPaq upgrades to remote servers
G Deploying an operating system on remote servers from network
drives
G Performing disaster recovery of failed operating systems
■ Virtual power button
Using any standard browser interface, the Remote Insight board can be
used to remotely operate a host server’s power button. For example, if
the host server is off, you can turn it on from a remote console. This
feature requires a cable between the Remote Insight board and the server
power button. The virtual power button feature works on the ProLiant
CL, DL, ML, 1850R, 8000, 8500, and all TaskSmart
TM
servers.