From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 20:35:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F43816A414 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D1E13C45A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1BF5C2E; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:35:18 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <461D4685.1050301@hdk5.net> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:35:17 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Ragona References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410100710.025273c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410100710.025273c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:35:19 -0000 Derek Ragona wrote: > At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... >> >> Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to >> a server >> *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard >> recognized? >> >> Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I >> need a >> tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down >> for some >> reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal >> until they >> actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to >> do any >> diagnosis :( >> >> Thx ... > > > > This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the > motherboards. The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch > which keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups. > > -Derek > Aloha, KVM switch... This is the way I do it as well with 8 servers in a noc . ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol