[114563] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Managing your network devices via console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Thu May 14 22:59:54 2009
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:59:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: <2909d6d90905141929n746c29c9v88b337ee4ce981c1@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Mehmet Akcin" <mehmet@akcin.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've found Avocents to be a nightmare, and the company to be horrible to
deal with.
They work fine as a local console switch, but they are absurdly
expensive for that use. The rest of their features are byzantine in
implementation and usage, and their support and licensing policies
exorbitant.
Old school terminal servers and IPMI/DRAC cards work very well.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:mehmet@akcin.net]
>Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:30 PM
>To: nanog@nanog.org
>Subject: Managing your network devices via console
>
>Hello,
>
>It's always cool to have console access to routers/switches and
>nowadays they are going from RS-232 to RJ-45 as a standart. I have got
>Avocent DSR 2035 which is a KVM+Serial console (all in one).. but
>while I was able to have it work against servers via KVM or/and Serial
>, I was unable to make it work properly against any network device. I
>am wondering if anyone had experience on DSR or similar boxes to
>configure them against network devices console ports.
>
>Making suggestions for alternative ways of centralizing network device
>console management is also more than welcome, I guess the old
>fashioned server attached usb-serial console is one of the most
>preferred way, but feel free to provide if you have good ideas
>
>cheers
>
>--
>Mehmet
