Source for DVI/USB KVM switch, cables

[Tom Buskey]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Similarly:
>
> Can anyone recommend an industrial strength KVM rig for a lab
> environment of 400+ systems ?


Get a number of units that you can connect to.
Cost/port on a serial console server is way less then KVM.  But that doesn't
work with PCs.

Can the PCs do IPMI (HP's iLO and Sun's ILOM) and then you can network them
instead?

Get a IP to KVM front end for multiple KVM backends?  There's at least on
that you connect to via VNC, making the remote access cross platform.


The problem I'm trying to solve is this:
>
>  We want to have our product's install be run automatically such that
>  when a system is automatically rebooted, it uses PXE and DHCP to
>  invoke a tftp transfer of the ISO image which the client then boots
>  and installs off of.
>
>  Given that the installer usually requires human interaction, we need
>  a way to "drive" the install process from an automated test
>  harness. Since the system isn't on the network during the install
>  process, we'll need console access, hence the need for a KVM
>  infrastructure.
>
> Any ideas about this would be gratefully appreciated.
>

Use Sun hardware that can be driven from a serial port?

Set the BIOS to boot from PXE 1st with a single screen/keyboard, then put it
on the net.

Did anything I throw stick to the wall?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20080425/81c3aff6/attachment.html