On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > > put on a server?" > > Realy good question... > > ...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers! > > That's a shame. There are some slick rackable displays, you know. I saw > one in a datacenter in Paris. It was foldable so you could slide it back > in it's rack, and had a KVM so you could plug it to 8 servers, IIRC. > > It looked like RPD 115{1,8} (see <http://www.elexis.fr/page000100db.html>).
I recently had to work on a cluster of 5 racks. Only 1 monitor per rack. 41 1U machines. The IBM machines and rack had a chain setup so that you could push a single button on a machine and you would have the console display on the 1U LCD monitor with keyboard tray (and touchpad, blah who needs that for a linux server?) I was simply impressed. Used to be the KVM switch(es) had to be hidden in 0U rack side storage along with the power distribution. Now a day, with USB ports on the front and various other display possibilities you can roll up a USB keyboard and a serial USB console setup and be good to go. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]