Hi,We find opengear work very nicely. www.opengear.com. Reasonably priced as well.
Regards Giles Dan MacNeil wrote:
Are you looking for a serial or a KVM solution?I don't have strong feelings. I'm mildly inclined to a serial solution as it feels like it would be cheaper and simpler. $250 for two 4 port serial cards and an old PC and a bunch of our time. Wim Vinckier wrote:On 5/30/07, Dan MacNeil <dan@thecsl.org> wrote:It would be nice for us to be able to remotely connect to the console of our various servers and on rare occasions to power cycle them remotely. Does anyone have a 8 port console server they like ? Console servers seem to be $100 to $200 a port. Does anyone have good experiences with a few 4 port serial cards in an otherwise unused PC ?I've seen a clever solution on a beowulf cluster: COM1 of serverX was connected to COM2 of serverX+1. COM1 of serverX+1 was connected to COM2 of serverX+2, ... This way they could at least see the console of the next server. I personally have some experience with perle hardware (http://www.perle.com/) but I don't have any idea about the price. wimpunk.
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