Well we were moving our new Sun 280R's into racks yestarday and one of my Unix team guys went to plug in an *old* P120 Intel box to use as a console device when the P/S went south hard. The spike tripped the main breaker on an OLD OLD OLD PDU which the PC was plugged into. I'm still wondering why the TWO smaller breakers (one on the Sun rack the PC was using power from, and one on the PDU supplying the 30 Amp to the Sun rack) in between didn't trip first.
Know what else was on that PDU? The IBM Mainframe. After a 45 min IPL we lost half a days work.... No the NetApp was on two separate house circuits and stayed up. :-)
I've been trying to get them to buy me a Console concentrator but I get those blank stares... What is that and what does it do? Why can't you use Telnet? Well I shall make a good case for a concentrator today...
Can you all send me your vendor of choice for Concentrators again? I know it came up here just a little while ago. I need to collect vendors and hit them up for this while the issue is hot.
Thanks
Bob Borowicz
Bob Borowicz rbaus@swbell.net writes:
Can you all send me your vendor of choice for Concentrators again? I know it came up here just a little while ago. I need to collect vendors and hit them up for this while the issue is hot.
Etherlite from
http://www.digi.com/products/terminal%20servers/etherlite.jsp
With a console software such as Conserver http://www.conserver.com/
We log everything that happens on the consoles of all our filers and servers, kept us from falling down hard more than once.
>.rune
We use Cyclades TS Series (http://www.cyclades.com/products/index.php?id=2) and a console software called Conserver ( http://www.conserver.com/) Works well for us. -G
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Borowicz" rbaus@swbell.net To: "toasters" toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:11 AM Subject: Need Serial Console Concentrator
Well we were moving our new Sun 280R's into racks yestarday and one of my Unix team guys went to plug in an *old* P120 Intel box to use as a console device when the P/S went south hard. The spike tripped the main breaker on an OLD OLD OLD PDU which the PC was plugged into. I'm still wondering why the TWO smaller breakers (one on the Sun rack the PC was using power from, and one on the PDU supplying the 30 Amp to the Sun rack) in between didn't trip first.
Know what else was on that PDU? The IBM Mainframe. After a 45 min IPL we lost half a days work.... No the NetApp was on two separate house circuits and stayed up. :-)
I've been trying to get them to buy me a Console concentrator but I get those blank stares... What is that and what does it do? Why can't you use Telnet? Well I shall make a good case for a concentrator today...
Can you all send me your vendor of choice for Concentrators again? I know it came up here just a little while ago. I need to collect vendors and hit them up for this while the issue is hot.
Thanks
Bob Borowicz
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