[150302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Feb 21 04:55:51 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <ED78B1C68B84A14FA706D13A230D7B431941AFD0@ITS-MAIL01.campus.ad.csulb.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:51:12 -0800
To: Matthew Black <Matthew.Black@csulb.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
+1 for Raritan... I was very happy with their KVM switches at my last =
job.
Owen
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Matthew Black wrote:
> Take a look at Raritan. We use their product to gain remote access to =
system consoles. No more driving 100s of miles. Ok, it would be 200 feet =
for us.
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> matthew black
> information technology services bh-188
> california state university, long beach
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis@lewis.org]=20
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:35 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
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> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote:
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>> At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the=20
>> trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart.
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>> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial,=20=
>> etc.
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> Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device =
about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise =
headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse. =
i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and =
touchpad. I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. =
from Dell), but I want something far more portable. Twice in the past =
month, I'd had to drive=20
> 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor =
and
> keyboard with me. Has anyone actually built this yet?
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