Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:09:24 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ... Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410150409.02531170@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <0FC87C0D2B43ABA3F0CECCAD@ganymede.hub.org> References: <DB1C681FBA350242795277B4@ganymede.hub.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20070410100710.025273c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <0FC87C0D2B43ABA3F0CECCAD@ganymede.hub.org>
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At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been
>using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers
>that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ... I only
>need to be able to access one at a time ...
>
>I've tried the 'serial console' route, but if the server crashes, logging
>in to
>the serial console doesn't show you anything, whereas, with the HP 'remote
>console' feature, its the same as a KVM, where running it does a screen
>refresh, so that I can see what is on the screen at the time of the crash ...
The simplest thing you can do is to make sure you are logging the console
messages. I set all remote servers to log the actual console output to a
separate log file in /etc/syslog.conf adding the line:
console.info /var/log/console.log
and adding a line to /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the logs:
/var/log/console.log 600 5 100 * J
-Derek
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