[150265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Mon Feb 20 13:23:11 2012
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:22:02 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120220175507.GA66123@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/20/12 09:55 , Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:51:59AM -0800, Joel jaeggli wrote:
>> Things with legacy ports on them are on the way out. given an ipmi
>> manager that doesn't suck there should be no reason to connect to the
>> machine at all, to console in. the rats nest is a lot more tractable
>> when there is ethernet and power and nothing else.
>
> This reminded me of another gizmo I'd like to have...
>
> How about a Bluetooth to Serial adapter? Routers don't (yet) have
> iLO, but I have this fantasy about being able to walk into a colo
> with a handfull of small adapters that I simply plug on to consoles
> and then sit down with my laptop and can access all the serial ports
> without having to run cables.
such a thing exists, I wouldn't consider it part of permanent oob solution.
http://www.amazon.com/SIIG-ID-SB0011-S1-RS-232-Bluetooth-Converter/dp/B001AZTABE
http://www.quatech.com/catalog/bluetooth_serial.php
> Talk about eliminating the rat's nest....
>
