non video console output

[adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org (Stephen Adler)]

P.S. I've looked into the kvm over ip and the cost is very high, about 
$750 for a 4 port unit...

Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:
> IPMI ?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
>
> If you can't use IPMI, a friend of mine used a neat solution if you
> have more than one computer running: connect a pair of serial ports
> together using a null cable modem, so that you can monitor one
> computer from the other. You can make a chain of connection so that
> you can monitor more than 2 computers: basically you access the
> console of the 'next' computer using a terminal emulator from the
> 'previous' computer, like a linked-list kind of arrangement.
>
> 	   	     	  Cheers,
> 					Nuno
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> | equivalent? For example, all those super computers made up of 1000's of 
> | linux PC nodes, how do they monitor their console outputs?
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