[Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations

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I think they released their HTML5 interface for OOB.  That said, I'm also
not a huge fan.

Jon

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 7:02 AM Michał Purzyński <michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’d recommended everything but super micro.
>
> A box of matches to shine the light on the dark corners of your network
> will behave better than anything built on super micro.
>
> HP and other vendors may seem more expensive to buy, but the low quality
> of super micro servers, apparent lack of support, arbitrary cut support “we
> do not support this anymore” and ridiculous replacement policy makes it a
> non-starter for me.
>
> Example: they wanted me to send all dead hard drives back before they can
> send me a replacement.
> And that would take days or a week or two weeks.
>
> Raid battery problems?
>
> SM requires you to send entire server back and in a short 6 weeks - 3
> months you will see it back. Maybe.
>
> Mechanically, chassis are a joke, too.
>
> OOB? No OOB hardware monitoring. And Java 1.6 required. If you have to use
> any kind of proxies, socks, tunneling - forget.
>
>
> > On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Carlos Lopez <clopmz at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the following days, we will setup a Bro-IDS distributed architecture
> using 10 sensors and one manager. Network bandwidth will be between
> 2GiB-4GiB. Until now we used HP servers, but we are looking at SuperMicro
> servers as well. Can anyone recommend series or model?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > C. L. Martinez
> >
> >
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