KVMs

[Ray Arachelian]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> Serial ports?  Multiplexer?  I just do it over the LAN,  where they're all 
> connected already anyhow...
>   

Yeah, but that doesn't work too well when said server has a broken disk
and is physically several thousand miles away.  You do need to be able
to get on the consoles of these.  Where possible, terminal servers works
beautifully and are network accessible.

Personally, I keep bootable CDROM's in all the servers that have CDROM
drives.  Else, they can be booted off the network.  However, without
access to console to poke around with, you're hosed.