Lots of features have been demo'd individually. I'm working on integrating
these features together towards a working whole.
Remote BIOS
- WakeUpOnLAN. Turned on a host via a WuOL GUI on a remote Win95 box.
- BIOS settings. Changed BIOS settings on a host via a
SNMP-like Windows GUI. While it shares the MIBs of SNMP,
it does not speak the SNMP protocol unfortunately.
Also PXE cannot be set as the boot device remotely.
Each host will have to go on a head to have PXE set
before going into the rack. Hopefully Dell will fix
this in futre BIOSes
Remote Boot
- excercised the PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment) on our
major NICs: 3c905B, 3c905, eepro
- fixed the PXE freeware to tftp correctly, thanks to John Snell
supplying a Borland TurboAssembler.
- booted diskless linux (very useful in resurrecting dead MS OSes)
- repartitioned and formated FAT volumes and Ext2 volumes from PXE
- installed and booted a full win95 boot partition
- installed and booted the win98 rescue image (handy if you like DOS)
- installed and booted NT4 this morning. Appears all the long
filenames got lost as well as the Start Menu. hmmm.
Remote Win32
- tested NT 4 Terminal Server Edition server
- tested NT 5 beta 2 which has Terminal Server standard
- ran MS Terminal Server Client on Microsoft systems (RDP protocol)
- ran the Cytrix linux terminal server client (ICA protocol) ($$$)
- tested WinVNC (Virtual Network Computer) server on NT
- ran the linux and NT vncviewer (very slow)
- installed PCAnywhere on NT and ran the client on Microsoft systems