Negatives?

• Not always 100% reliable, I've had BMCs stop responding to LAN traffic and a BMC cold restart didn't work, I had to remove the power from the server and then bring it back up again

• SOL connections seem to lose characters or get some in the wrong order if you type too fast

• Both of the above might be Supermicro BMC or IPMIView implementation issues rather than IPMI itself

• Not all IPMI 2.0 BMCs support RCMP+ encrypted sessions, no prior IPMI versions do

• Not all BMCs can do speeds other than 19.2Kb/s

• SOL isn't a perfect environment, but it's better than travelling to your datacentre in an emergency