How can I access an Apple Xserve with no I/O ports

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Published on 2012-09-16T13:47:05Z Indexed on 2012/09/17 9:41 UTC
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I have an Apple Xserve at my place of employment, that I stumbled across one day going through some old equipment. The Xserve has one card installed on it, being the NIC, and is labelled with the static IP adresses that it has assigned, but other than that it is totally 'headless'. I would like to put it to use ( by either rolling it over to a Linux, or Windows Server 08 environment... 0_o ) but have yet to figure out how to get into the system to manage it.

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