Hi all, I am researching ideas/solutions for building a centralized/redundant OOB management/dialer system. The purpose will be to provide a couple of geographically distributed systems with a modem (or more) attached (preferably logically attached) for connecting to remote offices when their primary WAN link is down. The remote offices have a standard terminal server with a modem.
The current solution deployed is a single server with a single modem physically attached, using a shared minicom dialing directory as the dialer. Obviously another system at another geographic location is preferred, but that leads to the next hurdle -- virtualization. Not only are systems quickly being virtualized, but once virtualized VMotion and the lack of physical serial/USB ports makes physically connecting modems to a single host server a non-option. Here's the basic concept in a perfect world: - Site A has a Guest OS and a modem connected to a Serial/USB over IP device - Site B has a Guest OS and a modem connected to a Serial/USB over IP device - The Guest OS at both Sites A & B share a dialing directory and emulate their local modem over IP. Avocent has a seemingly good product ( http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/products/network-based/), but the proposed OS is FreeBSD, which doesn't appear to be supported. - Has anyone used the Avocent product, or another similar product, with success? - Any FreeBSD experts out there know whether or not their Linux drivers would be able to emulate a serial device to FreeBSD using Linux "emulation?" - Are there any "purpose built" systems that function as a centralized dialer? - Are there any suggestions for a dialer other than Minicom? Thanks, -- Eric Cables _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
