Remote console options?

[derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net (Derek Martin)]

Yesterday, Scott Ehrlich gleaned this insight:

> Hello to all:
> 
> At work we have several systems at a colocation facility.   These systems
> are cabled to a kvm.   If a system goes down for any reason, one of the
> Sys Admin staff (of which I am one) must take a trip out to the site.
> 
> To help try and prevent this, is there any kind of remote console system
> which can permit the Sys Admin team to use a program to act as a remote
> kvm, getting a remote console display over Ethernet?

It's VERY easy to configure a Linux box to use the serial port as the
console.  See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt for details.

Once you've done that, you can connect any sort of modem/terminal
server/whatever to be your console access method.  We like the Cyclades
PR3000 series.  Network accessible consoles for stacks and stacks of Linux
boxes.  ;)


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Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
ddm at MissionCriticalLinux.com |  derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net
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