There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks. But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to…
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Lights Out Management + Full Disk Encryption
If you have a server running Lights Out Management and you’re Full Disk Encrypting the boot volume where you have to enter a password to fire up the OS/decrypt the boot volume and you reboot the host, then what might you expect to happen when you power the system back on? I’m not saying not to use FDE with your servers, just think through whether or not certain features will conflict with one another… Just a thought.