[mdlug] Remote access "lights out" vis serial port.

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I have a group of machines that are not in a place that is easy to get to if
there is issues and the company does not want to pay for roving techs to
reboot or watch as the machines boot, or pay for KVM switches.

So question is.
Looking for some options to access my dell machines running Red Hat (multi
versions)  using the serial port.  I know Dell sells some remote management
cards but the hardware is so old that they do not have cards that will
work.

Some "like to haves" would be - Viewing boot up cycle, able to reboot
machine when nic cards are down,  X-windows over serial,  access to bios
changes.  I believe anything with low level hardware access most likely is
not possible via serial port but maybe some one has some ideas.

Thanks

VP
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