[geeks] ARGH. KVMs

[Geoff Reed]

there's acompany out there that makes a card for a PC that replaces the vid 
card, it looks like a MGA? to the system and it provides a serial port for 
console use, and it also plugs into the keyboard port..... :)  BUT it was 
~$200 last time i checked :(

At 11:32 PM 12/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:18:31PM -0500, Zach Malone wrote:
> > > Yup, Raritan paragon :)  the ONLY way to handle a rack with 50 1U servers
> > > in it :):):)
> >
> > To bring up the KVM/PC issue again, its the only way to deal with 50 1U 
> PCs.
> > All the large racks I have seen use console servers, but that wouldn't work
> > well with Windows machines I suppose.
>
>It might work.  You could get PeeCees that support serial consoles, then use
>VNC for everything else.  Increasingly, it seems that you actually might be
>able to get away with just sshing into NT machines, and using command line
>tools (particularly WSH) to configure things.  When it comes down to really
>mission critical though, it would be possible to fail in ways that SSH and
>the serial console can't fix (I don't know if PC serial consoles can ever be
>set up to give you command line access from in WindowsNT).  Then you either
>need a real console, or you need to assume that Windows machines refers to
>server that for some silly reason still have XWindows running on them.
>
>
>--
>Joshua D. Boyd
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