Vivek Khera wrote: > > 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.... > How old is your Cyclades box? Since mid 2002 these boxes don't send a break when power cycled. And I know what I say, being an ex-employee of cyclades (o' course, technician). We had customers with quite a large amount of sun servers and these are usually pretty sensitive regarding breaks. Never had an issue due to power cycles... hm... consider a replacement :) The old boxes had 5 years of warranty. So, go for it ;))
> I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them... > I'd rather stick with a good old console which I can access remotely via ssh, too. So Long, Marian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
