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The way I’ve ended up going is to just use a standard keyboard and monitor with a KVM over IP switch. In the US it’s not hard to find relatively inexpensive ones on the used market, but they do require a module for each computer, which can increase the costs. I’ve had good luck finding the Avocent MPU2016 switches. Worth a look on eBay anyway.
You’re right, they are not as expensive as I remembered. I’ll try to find one on ebay. How do you access the console - browser with Java applet?
That model’s got an html5 console available so I don’t have to mess with Java. The one thing I haven’t got it to do is remote power cycle. I make a point to set up wake on LAN for that.