Greetings, all, and Happy New Year. For out-of-band access, we have a few of these in some data centers and they work nicely:
http://opengear.com/sites/default/files/documentation/product-acm5500.pdf They solve three use cases: 1) They allow us to ssh into our servers over 3G/4G when the standard network is down. 2) If there are iDRACS or managed power, we can get console access and/or power management, again, when the normal network is down. 3) They they allow us to remotely control our networking gear, having full access while we swap configs or reboot. These devices are handy, but can be a bit pricey. So these devices tend to be used more by our mid- to high-end clients. Yet, we have clients with simple setups, just one or two servers, maybe in a data-center or maybe stuffed under someone's desk. For them, I would imagine a cell phone with a USB tether would work sufficiently to ssh into their servers remotely. That assumes the cell phone can run an ssh server or connect to a VPN. Just ssh into cell phone then ssh to server, or even just do port forwarding straight to the server. A small step up would be an older netbook, running SSH or a VPN, again tethered to a cell phone and connected to the server over both ethernet and serial. For console access or power control, the netbook can be connected to a single server KVM, like the Spider: http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/spider.html Has anyone done something like that or know of similar solutions for remote OOB access to servers? Regards, - Robert -- -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central West End Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cwelug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
