Does such a system exist?

[Mark Lane]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Erik L <erik_list-etARiVBfTZtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Dave Germiquet:
> > Do you have monitoring on those systems? Because you may be able to
> > limit the amount of hardware resets/soft resets by monitoring the
> > applications and attacking the problem before it gets that bad.
> >
> I think that's solving the wrong problem. Console access is still useful
> and sometimes you don't know when you might need it. For example, you might
> make a change in production that went fine in testing and discover that a
> server is going into kernel panic a few hours later. There is no opportunity
> here to "attack the problem before it gets that bad" and monitoring can't
> help you at that point other than to tell you that the box is down.
>
> In lieu of something like HP iLO or another built-in solution, a remote
> reboot + KVM over IP is one alternative.
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You can also use serial console switches. Assuming the servers support it.
Of course they wouldn't offer any gui access to the boxes.

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