[114565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Managing your network devices via console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri May 15 01:02:19 2009
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:02:06 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A91F3EC4@pascal.zaphodb.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> 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.
>
I have a PM25 that's an absolutely awesome console server. The only
thing it can't do that would make it perfect is SSH. I've never been
particularly impressed with the responsiveness of IPMI/SOL, but it's
acceptable since it's typically only used in an emergency.
~Seth
