RE: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread Tamouh H. 
 I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting
 to find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the
 servers connected to it via serial cables. I know such a
 device exists, but it was a long time ago since I last saw
 one, and I'm not really sure what one of these would be
 called. Has anyone had any experience with such a device?


It is called Remote Serial Console or Remote SSH Console. Something like:

http://www.networktechinc.com/srvsw-term-ssh.html

You might also want to look KVM over IP switches



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Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread RW 
On Saturday 17 December 2005 23:11, patrick wrote:
 I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a
 device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected
 to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a
 long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not really sure what one
 of these would be called. Has anyone had any experience with such a
 device?

I've heard them called Terminal Servers, but that name is also used in the 
sense of Windows Terminal Server.
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Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread David Gerard 
RW wrote:
 On Saturday 17 December 2005 23:11, patrick wrote:

I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a
device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected
to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a
long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not really sure what one
of these would be called. Has anyone had any experience with such a
device?

 I've heard them called Terminal Servers, but that name is also used in the 
 sense of Windows Terminal Server.


Console server, specifically remote serial console servers. You can
make one yourself with a PC and a bunch of serial cards very easily
(using conserver(8)) - or (a better idea in a commercial setting) buy
them as a supported piece of hardware.

It doesn't matter for FreeBSD on a PC, but if you're running Suns then
important matters include not sending BREAKs down the line at
inopportune moments.

I asked about this on my LiveJournal and got quite informative responses:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva/241324.html


- d.

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Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread Will Maier 
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:11:24PM -0800, patrick wrote:
 I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to
 find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers
 connected to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists,
 but it was a long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not
 really sure what one of these would be called. Has anyone had any
 experience with such a device?

Other responses in the thread are correct -- you're looking for a
console server (or a serial concentrator). There's an article
shipped with FreeBSD that describes just this type of thing; it's
also available online:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/index.html

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