Please forgive the ignorance of a sales guy lurking an engineers' discussion list...
Why would you want this type of solution instead of/in addition to FilerView? Granted, FilerView is network-bound (correct?), but if you need to dial in under a complete network outage wouldn't any RAS/terminal server solution do? (I'd be concerned about security issues with my filer console ports connected indirectly to a modem, though.) For those familiar with other remote management solutions, how does NetApp's remote manageability compare with, say, Compaq's Remote Insight Board Lights Out Edition? TIA. Joe
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-----Original Message----- From: Ronan Mullally [mailto:ronan@online.ie] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:29 PM To: Martin Hughes Cc: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Re: Filer Serial Connectivity
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