Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:47:32 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? Message-ID: <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org>
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Hi there, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm thinking about getting the machine with a DRAC4 remote management card. > This looks to be OS-independent (you can configure through the BIOS) so I > expect it will just work. I've seen various posts talking about how it > tends to take over the keyboard and render the real console inaccessible, > but there are workarounds for that. 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. There you go ;) ssh username:yourserver@console-server A pretty nice way to do remote management. HTH, Marian PS.: If you need additional informations, ask me. At work we have approx 1000 servers (appr. 300 dell's) remote managed with console servers. And it's working fine.
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