Remote Access to a Server
Ways to reach a server you are not standing next to — and, more usefully, ways to reach one that is not answering normally.
In this section
|
Page |
What it covers |
Works when |
|---|---|---|
|
Keyboard, video and mouse through the management controller — the server's own hardware, independent of Windows. |
The machine is powered but the operating system is not usable, or you need to watch it boot. |
|
|
Driving Backstage itself from a browser, without a desktop session. |
The server is running normally and you want to operate the show, not the machine. |
Pick by what has failed. The Remote UI needs Backstage to be running to be worth opening. The BMC console does not need Windows to be running at all — it is the route that still works when everything above it has stopped, and the only one that can watch a server through a restart.
Not documented yet
Screen (VNC) — remote desktop access to the server's Windows session, available from the web interface under Operate. It sits between the two routes above: it needs Windows running, but gives you the whole desktop rather than one application. There is no written guide for it so far.
Related
Control Server Power — power control, including from the management controller when the operating system cannot be reached.