Serial admin console program

Neil Joseph Schelly neil at jenandneil.com
Tue Sep 23 20:40:59 EDT 2008


On Tuesday 23 September 2008 17:35, Alan Johnson wrote:
> Yeah, those are nice, but all our stuff is collocated with servers that
> already have serial ports, so it seems kind of silly to spend the money for
> 3-4 serial consoles when 10-20 servers/serial-ports are already sitting
> right there. =)  Still, good tip.

That's exactly the reason to get a serial console server.  You have a bunch of 
stuff collocated with serial ports.  Now you can buy a single console server 
and plug them all in.  Then you just have to SSH/telnet to particular IP/port 
combinations for every server.
-N


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