> anyone know of brand of products so i can have remote > console access to both LINUX and SPARC Boxes. > > I'am looking for a way to be able to reboot the boxes, > look at the system as it boots to trouble shoot in the > bios if needed, anything i can do from the console.
I didn't see this answered anywhere, so I'm sorry if this is redundant. Anyway, the way you go depends on what kind of hardware you have. You basically need a controller box to handle the reboots, which basically just has a serial port and a minicom session per box. For Solaris, it's easy, just hook up a null-modem connection between your Sparc serial port A and a controller box. Don't include a graphic card or keyboard on this box. For x86 Linux, you have a few options: a) for crappy hardware, it depends on whether or not you want to be able to see the BIOS messages. If you don't mind not being able to mess with the BIOS, you can simply put the following line in /etc/inittab: S1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT19200 vt100 and the following line in lilo.conf (or whatever the GRUB equivalent is) append=" console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200N8 " This will get you all of your boot messages, and start a console. However, to see your BIOS messages, you will need a hardware implementation. Check out the "PC Weasel 2000" for information about this - http://www.realweasel.com/ - this basically redirects keyboard and character-based-video through a serial port, so you don't need any of the modifications above (although you can do it for better performance). b) On newer intel server boards, I believe there is an option to shove the character-based stuff through the serial ports anyway, just like a "real" server. Let me know if you need more info. Jonathan Bartlett > > This hardware will be needed to support both linux > and solaris on sparc. > > Thanks guys. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
