adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

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Derek Ragona wrote:

> At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ...
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>> Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to 
>> a server
>> *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard 
>> recognized?
>>
>> Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I 
>> need a
>> tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down 
>> for some
>> reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal 
>> until they
>> actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to 
>> do any
>> diagnosis :(
>>
>> Thx ...
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> This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the 
> motherboards.  The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch 
> which keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups.
>
>         -Derek
>
Aloha,

KVM  switch...
This is the way I do it as well with 8 servers in a noc .

 
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