Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Rich Davies
All, We have been using WTI console servers for many years and so far I have no issue with them. The older models had DB9 serial connections and newer models have RJ-45. You can pin them out to any serial based console device. WTI has been very helpful with assistance on custom pinouts even

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
| Phone: 914-460-4039 > aim: matthewbhuff| Fax: 914-694-5669 > > -Original Message- > From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of > Howard Jones > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:10 AM > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subjec

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Matthew Huff
al Message- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Howard Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:10 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers? On 15/07/15 09:00, Saku Ytti wrote: > Now this is my favourite way to build

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-07-15 11:16 +0100), Phil Mayers wrote: Hey, > We really fought with conserver; I'll have to ask the colleague who did the > work for details, but IIRC it would just hang up and stop working, logging, > etc. > > Have you had similar problems? No. We have triple digit ports. We also have

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Phil Mayers
On 15/07/15 09:00, Saku Ytti wrote: Being forced to solve with existing vendors, we discovered 'conserver' which adds all the missing bits to Cisco CPE solution for OOB, i.e. you get serial port multiplexing, you get persistent logging of console ports. We really fought with conserver; I'll ha

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Phil Mayers
On 15/07/15 00:40, CiscoNSP List wrote: We've just started using Opengear The Opengear boxes get a lot of good word-of-mouth, but we've just tried a couple and to be honest, I'm a bit underwhelmed. One particularly irritating feature is that the console logging - to files/NFS/etc. - interp

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-07-15 09:10 +0100), Howard Jones wrote: Hey Howard, > Do you have a URL? The only things I can find run on a PC, not the router > (conserver.com), which *would* be another vendor in the comms cabinet... That is correct. The job-1 setup was like this: COMPE

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Howard Jones
On 15/07/15 09:00, Saku Ytti wrote: Now this is my favourite way to build OOB. Because with the Cisco CPE I have comprehensive WAN options, which organization already knows how to provision and support. All existing tooling/automation works. Our WAN of choice was either own E1 or 4G, if we ru

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-15 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2015-07-14 23:40 +), CiscoNSP List wrote: Hey, > We've just started using Opengear (7216's) - 16 serial ports(Can use standard > straight through eth, or rollover), has 3G/4G, modem and 2 x Eth connections, > all can be setup as failover for each other as OOB...plus supports dydns(We >

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-14 Thread David Hubbard
de. David > -Original Message- > From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On > Behalf Of CiscoNSP List > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 7:41 PM > To: Scott Granados; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers? >

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-14 Thread CiscoNSP List
quot;4" WAN connection optionsvery handy when you cant get a pstn line installed into a Data Centre...just use Eth and 4Gworks well for us From: cisco-nsp on behalf of Scott Granados Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 3:03 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-14 Thread Matthew Huff
:   914-694-5669 -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 1:04 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers? Hi, Wondering what people are doing / best

Re: [c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 05:03:33PM +, Scott Granados wrote: > Hi, > > Wondering what people are doing / best practices for remote management > generally in datacenter environments. We have several datacenter with a > mix of Cisco, F5, Juniper and Palo Alto equipment in each. All have a >

[c-nsp] Remote management console servers?

2015-07-14 Thread Scott Granados
Hi, Wondering what people are doing / best practices for remote management generally in datacenter environments. We have several datacenter with a mix of Cisco, F5, Juniper and Palo Alto equipment in each. All have a similar RJ45 type console port and all are pretty much your garden variety d