[SunHELP] console servers

[Vinay Bharel]

Take a look at Server Technology's website, http://www.servertech.com. I
would highly recommend their Sentry consoles. We have been using them with
our servers, switches and routers for years without any problems.

The Sentry also allow you to remotely power off and/or power on equipment.

Also check out Arula Systems, http://www.arula.com. I haven't used their
products but have heard good things.

For your X86 servers, look at the PC Weasel 2000
(http://www.realweasel.com). It's an ISA card that gives you a serial
console on x86 machines.

- Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kevin Maguire wrote:

> Hi
> 
> My computer room is spiraling out-of-controk, with a mixture of Suns
> (E250/E450/U10/....), HP, Alphas, etc.  Each either lives standalone,
> or has some ancient VT52 or something attached to it.  I've decided
> that this can't continue, we soimpyl dont have the space.
> 
> I'm canvassing opinions on what to do about it!  What do other System
> Mangers recommend?  I'd like some kind of console server, but which is
> best with our mixture of hardware.  There seems many options, many
> supporting features I dont really need (remote access via dialin
> modems, etc).  We did a test install of conserver (www.conserver.com)
> on Linux which worked OK, but I think I'd prefer a hardware based
> system, though I'm not sure why I think that :-)
> 
> Comments ....
> 
> Kev
> 
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