From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 8 04:30:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC56216A4D0 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7330143D1F for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i18CU3OL031078; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:30:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i18CU2Qa031075; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:30:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 13:30:01 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Richard Coleman In-Reply-To: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20040208132440.U31039@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <40225A27.7030208@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for remote console access card that works with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:30:02 -0000 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Richard Coleman wrote: > I'm looking for a remote console card that will work with FreeBSD 5.2 or > -current. The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2450. > > By remote console card, I'm referring to a PCI card that uses a separate > network connection so that you can remotely access the equivalent of a > serial console via a web browser or telnet/ssh session. Essentially, I > need to have remote access to single user mode on a collocated box. Hi! Well, there are basically two solutions to this issue: 1) What you describe above, is a remote management card. Dell manufactures such ones, have a look for DRAC: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps2q02_bell These are similar to Compaq iLO etc... (I never worked with them, because we deployed solution #2) 2) Have a standard terminal server like cyclades TS-xxx available, on this thingie you connect via ssh/telnet and the ssh-session is hooked up to a serial port. Verrry nice, those cyclades are quite stable, _and_ they offer buffering for console output, so in case of trouble you notice the last lines of console messages. http://www.cyclades.com/products/2/ts_series (For the archives: I personally like the Compaq iLO, because it also offers quite sophisticated remote monitoring via SNMP, also the HDD's are being monitored for failure etc...) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)