13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
4:53 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
What do you do when one of your boxes fails to boot? :>
(and, thus, the network stack isn't up and running).
One port terminal servers can be helpful. As can newer
boxes that have built in network ready management consoles...
On Sunday 13 August 2006 06:40 pm, Scott Quinn wrote:
> Don said
>
>> Amusing to think someone will spend $125+/node
>> just to live WITHOUT a keyboard! :-(
> Somewhat disappointing, too. The way you run servers without keyboards is
> using a serial terminal plugged into a multiplexer. Clean, and
Sure. But servers aren't workstations. :-(
As I said, I suspect the reason "my" problem hasn't been
solved adequately/economically/etc. is that the folks who
buy KVM's and the like are running farms of largely
homogenous systems (and only need a console when they
need to figure out why a box doesn't want to boot, etc.)
substantially
less pricy. No Wizards or other excuses, though - you have to
know your stuff for that.
Serial ports? Multiplexer? I just do it over the LAN, where they're all
connected already anyhow...