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benjojo posted 29 Jul 2024 10:00 +0000

Friendship ended with Supermicro, the new H13 boards try and nickel and dime you for HTML5 virtual media...

A screenshot of a Supermicro IPMI Virtual Media, but instead is shows "This function requires SFT-DCMS-SINGLE license!"

edward@social.sphero.. replied 29 Jul 2024 11:24 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/8nfLpxTjQ521f3DJH9

@benjojo this absolutely boils my piss with Supermicro! They don’t seem to see any issue with it being included in the ancient Java applets that they can’t be bothered to update, but paid for in the HTML5 version of the KVMoIP on the same bloody board!
We’ve been mounting ISO files via SMB in the IPMI instead, but that’s buggy as hell on some boards and only works with SMBv1, which is insecure…

benjojo replied 29 Jul 2024 11:27 +0000
in reply to: https://social.spheron.one/users/edward/statuses/112869524393963464

@edward I picked Supermicro over the other Tyan/Gigabyte options because in general I didnt think I was going to get dicked around, but clearly they will, so I guess the next box will be the Tyan/etc version.

They are slightly cheaper, and also dont come with restrictions over who can build them, and as far as I have observed on others setups, dont have hostile IPMIs (hence why I also dislike the Dell/HPE SKUs as well)

edward@social.sphero.. replied 29 Jul 2024 11:50 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/l1N4K43713Ztt9tn81

@benjojo We've got our first Gigabyte server on order at the moment, so fingers crossed the IPMI doesn't make me want to yeet it into the sun (if it ever arrives from Taiwan...)

The Supermicro VAR that we use have moved a lot of their builds to Gigabyte and ASUS due to the ridiculous stuff with Supermicro demanding to pre-build almost everything now.

feuerrot@chaos.socia.. replied 29 Jul 2024 10:58 +0000
in reply to: https://toot.berlin/users/krono/statuses/112869247047149691

@krono @benjojo sadly that's the old activation method, which IIRC doesn't apply to H13-boards.
The new one uses some sort of signed licence (I didn't reverse the full license check, but found a public cert and some calls to openssl rsa verification - but that was also over a year ago, so I'm not that sure about the details) - so it's probably impossible to generate a key without paying supermicro.