Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:35, Alan Johnson wrote: >> Yeah, those are nice, but all our stuff is collocated with servers that >> already have serial ports, so it seems kind of silly to spend the money for >> 3-4 serial consoles when 10-20 servers/serial-ports are already sitting >> right there. =) Still, good tip. > > That's exactly the reason to get a serial console server. You have a bunch > of > stuff collocated with serial ports. Now you can buy a single console server > and plug them all in. Then you just have to SSH/telnet to particular IP/port > combinations for every server. > -N
What Niel said. I'm using a 1u 48 port networked terminal server. You set an IP on the term server and a config on each port (webgui for this) with com params and an IP port number. so then ssh ip_address port will direct connect you to the serial port. on the servers add this to /etc/inittab T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100 and poof, login prompt. Term servers are the best technology that 1992 has to offer. They still exist for a reason and this is it :D > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
