[SunRescue] Re: SS2 running headless

[Dave McGuire]

  Well sure, you do have a point there.

  Fortunately though, Unix machines rarely wedge so hard that you can't
just log in and "sync;sync;reboot" them.  Except for the PeeCees, that
is, but the poor morons who run PeeCees in the computer room deserve
what they get.

  "Hey, can you bring that VGA monitor and PS2 keyboard over here?"

       -Dave McGuire

On February 11, Ken Hansen wrote:
> >From what you say, they had consoles, but not dedicated consoles. The
> original poster was talking about a machine with no user I/O, just ethernet
> access. That is nice, but acces to the machine over another port (serial
> console, dedicated tube/keys/mouse, or other) is, at the least, *suggested*
> isn't it?
> 
> Every machine doesn't need a dedicated console, I am 100% with everyone on
> that, but a console connected to a KVM, a serial console connected to a
> smart serial switch, or other is a reasonable minimum.
> 
> Bottom line, you more options to reset a server than the power switch...
> 
> Right?
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: SS2 running headless
> 
> 
> > On February 11, paul at anastrophe.com wrote:
> > > > A few things...
> > > >
> > > > 1) Runnig the machine with *no* console is not a *great*
> > > >    idea, but it should be OK.
> > >
> > > why do you say that? (currently running 18 servers headless and without
> > > console port connected, for the last two years, and would never even
> > > consider running the desktop on them since it's such a security
> sphincter)
> >
> >   I second this, Ken.  In the server and ISP industries, running
> > machines with no console is the norm.  At Digex, for example (before
> > the place went down the tubes, that is) picture hundreds of SS2 and
> > SS5 systems on shelves in racks...in the middle of the computer room,
> > a table and chair with a couple of VT320s with *very* long MMJ cables.
> >
> >   It's a very workable situation and has never given me any grief.
> >
> >
> >           -Dave McGuire
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