[plug] remote control of a server
Alan Graham
alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au
Tue Nov 13 21:19:42 WST 2001
I've recently put my firewall in a place that's hard to get at, physically.
This means I have to move it around to connect a monitor and keyboard to
it if there's any boot problems. Is there any way round this?
On Rs/6000's, I can configure the bios to use ttyS0 as the console. On an
SP/2, the control workstation can control the power supply, and display
status codes from the boot sequence. It can also communicate through an
internal e/net interface to any of the nodes, in single user mode.
Does anyone know if I can do something similar to a linux box? I'm
thinking of something (linux bios?) that allows the display of the console
log as a minimum, over a serial line or second e/net card perhaps? Full
control would be best of course.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Alan Graham
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