On Monday 02 June 2008 08:35:35 am Charles Taylor wrote: > Unfortunately, getting the messages off the console (in the machine > room) means using a pencil and paper (you'd think we have something > as fancy as a ip-kvm console server, but alas, we do things, ahem, > "inexpensively" here.
There are a couple solutions to help you there: * using a serial console connected to a remote machine (costs a serial cable and some configuration). * having an IPMI-enabled BMC, or any sort of remote-controler card should give you easy access to the machine's console, remotely. Those cards ain't cheap, but if you already got them in your servers, that's the good occasion to put them in use. * and maybe the easiest, most inexpensive (no hardware involved) and most convenient one: using netdump [1]. You configure a netdump client on the machine you want to gather logs and traces from, and a netdump-server on an other host, to receive those messages. This solution proved to be really efficient in gathering Lustre's debug logs and crash dumps. [1] http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/netdump/ and http://docs.freevps.com/doku.php?id=how-to:netdump HTH, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
