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1. JAVA APPLET VIEWER TERMINAL UPDATE
2. JAVA APPLET VIEWER TERMINAL WINDOWS 7

Supermicro’s driver/download site has horribly outdated versions of the firmware and I was lucky to find a German site that had a newer version of the IPMI2/BMC firmware for my X8SIL-F board. I fully agree… I have the same sorts of problems.Īnd even when it is working, it is sluggish, tent to be in VIDEO-ONLY mode all the time, does not respond correctly to screen refreshes and resolution changes etc etc etc… After all, you can’t reboot your production servers for every IPMI firmware release…Īnyway, I try not to write articles with negative attitude, but this time I just couldn’t resist. It’s not the latest one, but surely not a very old one. The Firmware Revision of the IPMI interface on the X8DTL motherboard is 01.29, dated.

JAVA APPLET VIEWER TERMINAL UPDATE

Update #3: If you upgrade the IPMI firmware to version 2.02, the Windows problem is fixed. Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu and Gentoo with Sun Java 1.6.20 works fine. Update #2: Linux doesn’t seem to be having any problems. Being able to get this working only with Chrome.Installing the Java 1.6.19 JRE update which I downloaded from the “Archive: Java Technology Products Download” page.Uninstalling the Java 1.6.20 JRE update.

JAVA APPLET VIEWER TERMINAL WINDOWS 7

Update #1: I downgraded to Java 1.6.19 on my Windows 7 by: The (ugly) fix is to downgrade your Java to 1.6.19 (and disable automatic Java updates): Note that IPMIView does not provide a KVM console for older versions of the Super Micro IPMI devices - the good news is that those devices work well within a web browser. Tested with Java Version 6 Update 31 (build 1.6.0_31) on Windows 7. Well… sorry Java applets + Super Micro IPMI, you really disappoint me!Ģ7/Mar/2012: Resolution: Use the IPMIView application which does not rely on web browsers. Though the Java failed on them today as well, as they are running Debian “lenny”, which seems to be having the latest Java version 1.6.20 too. Some not-so-bleeding-edge Linux machines, in order to have a “stable” Java installation there. As I’m a real paranoid about having a backup, I have a backup of the “backup option” – X over VNC, running on I (always) have a “backup option” – a Windows 7 virtual machine running on my desktop, as Java tends to work better for me on Windows (cross-platform, eh?). Today, it’s the “Launch Console” button doing absolutely nothing on my Kubuntu desktop – no errors, no action after clicking it, no nothing. Thus I’m not able to access the remote console of the server quickly, which in turn gets me real headache. One thing is for sure – I rarely need it, but almost each time I want to use the server-critical “Console Redirection” feature on our Super Micro servers, there is some problem with the Java applet. I don’t know if it’s Java or the Super Micro IPMI developers to blame, or both.