Question about drac5 and firefox 3

[Kevin Davidson]

Agreed for command line console access. There's a whole generation of  
point-and-click only administrators out there, though.

If it supported plain VNC that would be fine, too. I cant see how the  
effort required to maintain the current scheme can be justified.

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On 26 Mar 2008, at 14:55, dell at bobich.net wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Kevin Davidson wrote:
>
>> Have to say that requiring a non standard, browser specific plugin
>> seems wrong (and not worth the engineering effort to maintain).  
>> What's
>> wrong with Java?
>
> Among other things, that it is "a non standard browser specific  
> plugin"
> and that there is no 64-bit version of the said plugin available.  
> What's
> wrong with using ssh/telnet to get to the DRAC and attaching to the
> console that way? That'll "just work".
>
> And IIRC, the console browser plugin is actually based on VNC, which  
> would
> (arguably) make it less proprietary than Java.
>
> Gordan
>
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