On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
I don't know about the DRAC with FreeBSD, but I assume that the
BIOS of
this Dell still supports BIOS redirection to serial port. If so,
you can
have Monitor and Keyboard connected locally and use the serial console
remote.
Just get a small console server (depending on the amount of servers
you
have remote), for instance an old cyclades TS. Connect them and you
can
get on your serial port through the console server via ssh.
This is precisely what I do. The cyclades work extremely well,
except for one flaw: if you power cycle them they send a BREAK signal
down every serial port. So just make sure you don't have
BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER enabled on your kernels and you're safe. Otherwise
expect every server to break to debugger on a power cycle of your
cyclade. Not that you need to ever reboot those little boxes, but
you never know....
I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with
them...
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