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Re:Company Caught in Texas Data Center Raid Loses Suit Again... by patrickg-zill on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:20AM (#553918)
IPMI servers and related devices like Sun's LOM and HP's iLO have little to no storage space, perhaps a few MB of flash.

You can set up a limited number of users, like 16, and cannot store or access random data (i.e. you cannot use it like a 1GB USB drive). Of course, you could image that data, as there are tools under Linux etc. that let you read the IPMI / LOM / iLO information.

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Re:Company Caught in Texas Data Center Raid Loses Suit Again... by ankhmoop on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:48AM (#553946)
The management modules are often considerably more powerful than what is necessarily exposed via IPMI -- A number of SuperMicro's IPMI modules have more than a few megabytes of flash, and do run an embedded version of Linux.

The module's capabilities are not all that different from OpenWRT; they run Linux, have a network connection, provide a web UI including a 'VNC' server for the VGA console, run (IIRC) net-snmp ...

If I wanted to obscure my intentions, I definitely would leverage such non-obvious embedded systems.

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