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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