Talk:Out-of-band management

==Much information lost==

Since rewrite by Audriusa -which was perhaps rightfully needed- it seems much info was lost. Among others the implementation list ( IPMI, BMC and others ) was helpful IMHO Pweltz (talk) 15:58, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Split

I think it would be more a bit more acurate if 'out-of-band management' and 'lights-out management' where to be spilt.

As 'lights-out management' can be used over an in-band connection as well. (It might even be argued that given enough network equipment redundancy, OOBI needn't be availabe to the servers at all, where LOM may still be a nice feature despite this.)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.206.125.242 (talk)

Agree that 'out-of-band management' and 'lights-out management' should be separated, these two are not entirely interchangeable.--Vivek Rajendran (talk) 22:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Looking at sources, these terms both refer to remote management so can be handled within the one article. Any specific differences should be explained within the article - if the section explaining the difference between the two systems becomes very large then consideration could be given at that point to splitting out per WP:Summary style. SilkTork *^YES! 18:12, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree with the split, though for different reasons. Specifically, I would rename this article "LOM" and create a different article for OOB Management. What got me going on this were the following discrepancies:

1.) The description of OOB here does not agree with the definition of OOB in Wiktionary. I believe the Wiktionary one is more accurate.

2.) The Wikipedia article “out-of-band” has a paragraph that explicitly defines “out-of-band management". That paragraph’s definition fits with the Wiktionary one, and with the usage I see commonly in my work. But it is not the same as the definition in this article.

If we follow the Wiktionary definition, then out-of-band management would be where management traffic travels on a different channel than network traffic, and in-band management would be where management traffic is interspersed with network traffic in the same channel. This concurs with the OOB Management phrase in the Wikipedia Out-of-Band article as well.

Consider, for example, that using a serial connection to a console port and logging-in to the operating system is out-of-band management. But this article (see second paragraph) would classify that as in-band, since it relies on having an OS.

Lesser points, and more debatable, I admit: the “Capabilities” section is all about defining a “complete remote management system”. It never even mentions out-of-band management. Not clear to me why it’s even included in this article. And the “Remote CLI Access” section starts by describing term servers, but then digresses into WAN and POTS discussions. I think this section would work better by defining Remote CLI access clearly, then identifying some specific examples as just that: examples.

If everyone agrees, then I can attempt a few specific phrase changes. Tomwikwiki (talk) 17:39, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Coming in late here, but I just wanted to say that I think the distinction between the two still isn't clear in the article (though I don't know enough to improve it). The definition of LOM given in the article is basically just saying that it is out-of-band. Also I couldn't find the Wiktionary definitions mentioned so you might want to link to them. Proxyma (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

References

Dialtone

a data dialtone?? who writes this crap. the last few sentences are obviously a plug from vendors...these things are also expensive and hard to patch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.146.101.71 (talk) 19:12, 20 January 2009 (UTC)