Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers

The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "James Milko" <jmi...@gmail.com> To: "Randy Carpenter" <rcar...@network1.net> Cc: "Michael Starr" <ekim9...@gmail.com>, "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, Febru

Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers

We have >100 AT units deployed and about 35 Verizon units and have had virtually no issues with call home via openvpn. All opengear ACM7xxx series. We are using machine to machine plans from marketplace.att.com. Used to be a great deal, the new plans are still “fair” and better than standard

Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers

On 8 February 2018 at 06:48, Michael Rave wrote: > At all my sites I use Air Console with an OOB IP connection from another ISP. > Sometimes this is free since it is barely being used or I’m being charged a > very small amount . Other times I exchange an OOB IP

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> On 6 Feb 2018, at 23:34, Michael Starr wrote: > > I am wondering if people still use console servers with cellular service as > a disaster out-of-band management solution in your data centers? If not, > what are the alternatives? If so, are there any recommendations for >

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We get static IP's to facilitate monitoring that the OOB remains online (easier to hit a non-changing IP than getting false positives for outage between an IP change and DDnS or whatever other type of update needs to happen), and it also makes IPSec VPN easy if your roving sysadmins know what

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Static IPs are useful for connecting to the "home" site. If our main office is offline for some reason, it is nice to be able to quickly connect via cellular OoB. I agree that other solutions (dial-home, or private network) make sense for satellite sites. thanks, -Randy - On Feb 7,

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Lots of references to static IPs from cellular providers for OoB access in this thread. Why? It seems like a dial-home scheme is an obvious solution here, whether it's Opengear's Lighthouse product, openvpn, or whatever... Do you all have a security directive that demands whitelisted IP

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I've been pretty successful doing this with VZW as they were the only ones that I was able to get a static ip from fairly easily. Talked to tmo and sprint a few times and their people would say it was possible but could never get it done for whatever reason. It works well as long as you have good

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At the sites, are you installing external antennae's? -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth McRae Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:25 AM To: Michael Starr <ekim9...@gmail.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Console Servers &

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Yes. I use Opengear with great success. I use Verizon, T-Mobile & AT prepaid service depending on the area. When integrated with Opengear Lighthouse, the console server is fully manageable via cellular service. Kenneth > On Feb 6, 2018, at 6:34 AM, Michael Starr wrote:

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bject: Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers How is cell reception in multi-story data centers/carrier hotels? Good enough for remote management? JM

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Going to depend entirely on the data center. I've got OpenGear boxes deployed in a variety of places, using Verizon LTE with static IP. One Level 3 colo I'm in I had to buy a high gain directional antenna to get the signal strength up above -80, where below that you're lucky to get a

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Carpenter Cc: Michael Starr; nanog Subject: Re: Console Servers & Cellular Providers How is cell reception in multi-story data centers/carrier hotels? Good enough for remote management? JM

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How is cell reception in multi-story data centers/carrier hotels? Good enough for remote management? JM

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We use the Oopengear ACM and IM series and they are great. My only current issue is that Verizon does not allow for static IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. You can have one or the other, but not both. *facepalm* One major point of advice with the Opengear: make sure the firmware is up to date.

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Michael, Let me know what you end up doing. This is definitely something I've considred for our DC On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Michael Starr wrote: > Good call out — I didn’t put enough effort into searching previous > conversations. > > > > > On Feb 6, 2018, at 1:59

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Good call out — I didn’t put enough effort into searching previous conversations. > On Feb 6, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Andrew Latham wrote: > > Almost exactly a year ago > https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2017-February/090293.html > > notes first.> > >> On Tue, Feb

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Almost exactly a year ago https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2017-February/090293.html On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Michael Starr wrote: > Hello NANOGers, > > > > I am wondering if people still use console servers with cellular service as > a disaster out-of-band

Console Servers & Cellular Providers

Hello NANOGers, I am wondering if people still use console servers with cellular service as a disaster out-of-band management solution in your data centers? If not, what are the alternatives? If so, are there any recommendations for pay-as-you-go cellular service? Apologies if this is too