Re: linux blades, serial access

John Cagle wrote:

> iLO supports both Telnet and SSH sessions for remote text consoles and
> remote virtual serial consoles (which works a lot better for logging).
> I've successfully configured conserver to front-end both types of
> connections.  A key thing to remember is that iLO is very
> security-conscious and Telnet is disabled by default (since it is
> unencrypted).
It should be possible to use ssh from conserver (easy if the iLO 
interface supports access with ssh keys, slightly more tricky otherwise) 
- you could probably build something quite easily by modifying the files 
(the solsession expect script, and the example conserver.cf) at:

http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian_files/

If anyone manages this, it would be cool if they could post the results 
somewhere - I'm going to have to write such scripts for HP iLO boxes 
myself in a couple of weeks' time for some new HP servers...

BTW, I'm happy for the IPMI SOL stuff that I wrote, to go into the 
contrib/ directory if it's useful - if the licensing (GPL) is a problem, 
I'm happy to BSD
dual-license it.

Tim.