[Ipmitool-devel] Looking for recommendations...

[Paul A. <pa...@gr...>]

Hi,
I always hate seeing these kinds of emails, so I REALLY apologize for 
generating one on my own.

We're building a new cluster for our research group, and a lot of teeth 
cutting on the first two puts us in the position where we really want a 
better management infrastructure, and IPMI seems really cool!  We're 
looking at Opteron solutions, and we're moments away from dumping our 
initial prospect and (based on marketing crap, doh!) leading contendor, 
Tyan's 2881 with M3289 SMDC (their BMC).  We're trying to get our hands on 
a Supermicro H8DAR-T with AOC-1UIPMIB.

I was wondering if anyone had any/many positive experiences with either of 
the two systems/BMC's I've mentioned before, or with any others for that 
matter.  We're a linux shop, and are looking for stuffs that will play 
nicely with a 2.6 kernel.  And, based on our experiences with the Tyan 
thing, we're pretty sure we're going to want something IPMI-2able (please 
correct me if I'm wrong)...

Any cluster admins/users out there that can point me at their publicly 
accessible docs?

Thanks in advance!
Paul