I have a Tyan S5533 motherboard which serves as my NAS drive. It has a dedicated IPMI NIC, but I cannot start up the Java console since Firefox 52, Chrome/Chromium no longer support NPAPI plugins.
I even tried the Firefox ESR, but that didn't work either. I read on ServerFault that IcedTea doesn't work with IPMI, so I replaced IcedTea with an Oracle JRE on my Arch Linux desktop.
Here is what I would like to know:
- How to get the IPMI Java console working — is there any browser that I can install on Arch Linux?
- Since Firefox ESR will also only be supported until early 2018, what can be done to use the IPMI Java consoles? I have heard that Supermicro is moving towards HTML5 based KVM consoles, but what about existing boards out there? Will they all get a firmware update to support non-Java-based consoles?
Best Answer
Try
javaws <jnlp-URL>. This runs Java plugins outside of the browser.https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_webstart.xml. Also, look if you vendor offers other tools to work with this.