Console Management Servers

[feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Ward Vandewege wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:28:00AM -0400, Richard Chonak wrote:
>>> If you are just looking for something to connect to the console port of
>>> a machine, Avocent (www.avocent.com) makes some reasonably priced 2, 4,
>>> 8, and 16 port serial hubs. They run from $200 - $600.
>
> Has anyone got experience with opengear (http://opengear.com)? They seem to be
> entirely free software - with the software necessary to build new firmware
> available from
>
>  http://www.opengearweb.org/
>
> The 48 port device is competitively priced at ($1,500) imo; the 8 port device
> is on the expensive side at $500...
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.


What is missing from all of these serial console devices is a reset button 
for the machines being controlled. How much hardware would it take to 
logically connect one of the many controllable RS-232 wires to the reset 
pins on the MB? Or interface the WOL cable on the ethernet card to those 
pins?

Daniel Feenberg

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