From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hnh3p-0000bw-84 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 20:22:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4EKKxhX017357; Mon, 14 May 2007 20:20:59 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (251.67.2.81.in-addr.arpa [81.2.67.251]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4EKGShH012546 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 20:16:28 GMT Received: (qmail 22578 invoked from network); 13 May 2007 20:16:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 May 2007 20:16:24 -0000 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Remote administration of a server Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:16:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <8a0c7af10705141142u5a251a8fkfe90723e7952337e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8a0c7af10705141142u5a251a8fkfe90723e7952337e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705132116.23992.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: c692fc6a-081e-4bac-bd8f-87aa8f8426e5 X-Archives-Hash: 1ed5be53a4128b1b217efb0e3dd20921 On Monday 14 May 2007 19:42:45 Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: > To solve this, I'm seeing 2 options right now. The first would be buying a > KVM-over-IP unit. But, a KVM-over-IP unit with the number of ports I need > is expensive, almost as expensive as the servers it will be connected. We use a Belkin KVM-IP box with 2 sets of ports. One set for a local=20 keyboard/monitor/mouse, and one to a 16 port Belkin KVM. The IP box can handle upto 64 KVM ports, and the KVM can daisy chain to an= =20 extent I don't know. You don't say how many servers, but 64 is quite a lot. I believe Belkin do a 4 channel IP box too. Total cost was, I think, ~=A3700. To remotely manage >16 servers, peanuts. > Thinking about other options, does anyone have any other tip for me? Am I > going in the right direction? For the obvious answer: I know it's better = to > be closer to the datacenter, but that's not an option for me right now and > I know I'll have a remote-hands service, but it can be very time > inefficient sometimes and I'm trying to avoid it as much as possible. Remotely managed PDUs? Very very useful to be able to power cycle remotely too! =2D-=20 Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list