6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?
Marian Hettwer
MH at kernel32.de
Fri Jan 6 08:17:48 PST 2006
Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
>
>> I don't know about the DRAC with FreeBSD, but I assume that the BIOS of
>> this Dell still supports BIOS redirection to serial port. If so, you can
>> have Monitor and Keyboard connected locally and use the serial console
>> remote.
>> Just get a small console server (depending on the amount of servers you
>> have remote), for instance an old cyclades TS. Connect them and you can
>> get on your serial port through the console server via ssh.
>
>
> This is precisely what I do. The cyclades work extremely well, except
> for one flaw: if you power cycle them they send a BREAK signal down
> every serial port. So just make sure you don't have BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
> enabled on your kernels and you're safe. Otherwise expect every server
> to break to debugger on a power cycle of your cyclade. Not that you
> need to ever reboot those little boxes, but you never know....
>
How old is your Cyclades box? Since mid 2002 these boxes don't send a
break when power cycled. And I know what I say, being an ex-employee of
cyclades (o' course, technician). We had customers with quite a large
amount of sun servers and these are usually pretty sensitive regarding
breaks.
Never had an issue due to power cycles...
hm... consider a replacement :)
The old boxes had 5 years of warranty. So, go for it ;))
> I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them...
>
I'd rather stick with a good old console which I can access remotely via
ssh, too.
So Long,
Marian
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