Most modern x86 servers include out-of-band Management or Lights-out Management systems. These systems offer remote configuration and remote console access to a headless server normally located in a datacenter. These are typically used when first setting up a server, or perhaps when the server is hosed. The company I …

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Nearly all enterprise x86 servers include an out-of-band management interface such as HP iLO, IBM RSA or BMC, IPMI, Dell DRAC, etc. These are used for remotely power cycling, monitoring and what the data centre ops guys, confusingly for me, call KVM access (that's Keyboard Video Mouse not Kernel Virtual Machine!) As …

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