Hi,

Just a 2-penny worth from Geneva.  We looked at three makes of IP-KVMs last year and came to the following conclusions:

Rittal and HP.
Both use a Java Interface which is a) incomprehensible and b) unreliable.  We couldn't set the keyboard type (Swiss keyboard is standard here) and the mouse didn't work properly.   They crashed browsers of all sorts on Windows and Linux machines.  The general consensus was that to reboot a server with the HP KVM was just slightly easier than driving 20km through the snow to the data centre but only just.

Raritan Dominion
These boxes were the only ones we found that worked and were good to use.  But they come at a price, it's your Rolls Royce.

Sadly there does not seem to be much competition in this market (unlike the automotive industry).

Sorry to be negative but that's what we found. 

Jonathan Nicholas

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:12 +0100, Steven.Glogger@swisscom.com wrote: 
hi boys & girls

i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over-IP
(VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for
my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated.
some VNC solution would be great.
does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations?
as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)

-steven
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