Hi everyone! I have a couple of old desktops as servers in my rack. Sometimes , very rarely, I need to use the machines console.

Slide-out rack monitors are incredibly expensive here in Germany, so these are not an option. Next I thought about USB monitors - don these work out of the box with Linux or do the need special drivers? Or would I be better off using KVM over IP? Do you know of other not-so-expensive solutions?

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    1 year ago

    That model’s got an html5 console available so I don’t have to mess with Java. The one thing I haven’t got it to do is remote power cycle. I make a point to set up wake on LAN for that.