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Bruno_A
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Hello all,

 

I am looking to get something such as an add-on PCIe card that allows me to control a machine on a different network. By controlling, I mean being able to turn on, off, and even being able to see what's on the screen, kinda like HP iLO, present on HPE servers. Is this a thing? The primary purpose of this, is to be able to turn on and off a machine, for remote access via RDP. I used to use a similar setup, a while ago, on my personal PC, and used a personal VPN server to send a WOL signal to my motherboard, but I found that the VPN server wasn't too reliable, and now, I actually have a different motherboard, which, very often, doesn't POST at the first time, which would be an issue.

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Unfortunately this exists very limitedly and what does exist isn't very good. @Den-Fi has had a go at trying to find some in the past. I myself have looked. Nothing good exists. Your best option would be to buy a motherboard with included IPMI/iLO/iDRAC.

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Just now, Windows7ge said:

Unfortunately this exists very limitedly and what does exist isn't very good. @Den-Fi has had a go at trying to find some in the past. I myself have looked. Nothing good exists. Your best option would be to buy a motherboard with included IPMI/iLO/iDRAC.

That's a shame. I have previously used iLO in the past, and it's amazing, in my opinion, however, for what I need, an HP server is unnecessary.

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14 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

That's a shame. I have previously used iLO in the past, and it's amazing, in my opinion, however, for what I need, an HP server is unnecessary.

ASRock Rack, ASUS, & Supermicro make motherboards with included IPMI. They have boards that use standard form factors so you can put them in any chassis.

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If you didn't need GUI access, you could create a serial console server using something like a Raspberry Pi.

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