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December 11, 2006

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Apple answers my questions about Lights Out Management

Posted Dec. 11, ’06, 7:19 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery

Apple Remote Desktop I’m going to pretend that Apple wrote this support article based upon my curiosity about Lights Out Management.

Lights Out Management (LOM) is Apple’s implementation of the remote monitoring and management protocol Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) developed by Intel.

The addition of Lights Out Management to Xserve provides for the monitoring of over 100 sensors that measure voltage, temperature, fan speeds, etc. Using Server Monitor, one can get a fairly complete picture of the health of an Xserve.

In addition to monitoring LOM can also be used to control some functions of an Xserve. Xserve can be shutdown or restarted from a remote location via the implementation of LOM in Server Monitor. Even if the Xserve is in an unresponsive state, one should be able to gain access via LOM.

I’d rather not copy the entire document into this entry, so if you’d like the four one one, take a look. I have used similar technologies in bigger servers, so it’s good that I can now compare it to something else.


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