RE: linux blades, serial access

Considering that these are HP blades, it might be the case that they have reused their Secure Web Console software/hardware to provide the terminal access.  I don't know what protocol this uses, but it's better than nothing for remote access, but not as good as conserver.  Hopefully you'll be able to find out more if this is what it is using.

I hope that this helps,

	Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com]On
Behalf Of Tim Small
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:15 AM
To: Michael Dolan; users@conserver.com
Subject: Re: linux blades, serial access


Michael Dolan wrote:

>The group managing the blade setup claims that the only way to access the
>'console' is through a web browser/java applet. This is quite cumbersome,
>slow, and requires a GUI environment.  And worse yet, cant integrate into
>conserver :) Is there not a serial-like console access available to access
>the individual consoles of each blade?
>
This depends entirely on how HP have implemented the console access, 
which means you will probably have to do some detective work (e.g. 
sniffin the network, spying on the console client, etc.).  If it is 
IPMI, then see this:

http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html

If it's not IPMI, then it's probably real serial lines, and you will 
have to work out how to get at them..

Tim.

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