Six?? ... no way ... I use seventy two xterms.

IPMI can certain help at the hardware level. But if you need frequent hardware level access, or access to it by more than a couple people, something is wrong. The cloud infrastructure allows appropriate virtual level access (terminate an instance and start a new one). Maybe his "community access" was meant to do OS installs, which an infrastructure cloud stack would do. If not, maybe we need to know what the OP is really wanting to do.