Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:30:01 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for remote console access card that works with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040208132440.U31039@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com> References: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Richard Coleman wrote: > I'm looking for a remote console card that will work with FreeBSD 5.2 or > -current. The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2450. > > By remote console card, I'm referring to a PCI card that uses a separate > network connection so that you can remotely access the equivalent of a > serial console via a web browser or telnet/ssh session. Essentially, I > need to have remote access to single user mode on a collocated box. Hi! Well, there are basically two solutions to this issue: 1) What you describe above, is a remote management card. Dell manufactures such ones, have a look for DRAC: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps2q02_bell These are similar to Compaq iLO etc... (I never worked with them, because we deployed solution #2) 2) Have a standard terminal server like cyclades TS-xxx available, on this thingie you connect via ssh/telnet and the ssh-session is hooked up to a serial port. Verrry nice, those cyclades are quite stable, _and_ they offer buffering for console output, so in case of trouble you notice the last lines of console messages. http://www.cyclades.com/products/2/ts_series (For the archives: I personally like the Compaq iLO, because it also offers quite sophisticated remote monitoring via SNMP, also the HDD's are being monitored for failure etc...) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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