On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Martin Hughes wrote:
We have 4 clustered F840Cs in our environment. As a backup connection method, we're looking at some type of terminal server that we can connect the filers to that will present the filers serial ports as IP addresses that we can connect to , in order to view the bootup messages etc, with a modem hookup in case of complete network failure. Does anyone else out there have any recommendations on make/model of equipment?
We're using a Linux box with a Cyclades multiport serial card and a utility called 'conserver'. The Cyclades card will connect to up to 64 devices. Conserver allows multiple users access the console ports of the various devices over the network and logs every character that traverses the console connection to local disk.
The hardest part of the whole thing was figuring out the pin-outs for each device...
-Ronan