Re: Remote administration of a 2-node sun cluster running Solaris 5.8

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:54:02 GMT

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, mario wrote:

> Can someone elaborate a bit on what infrastructure is required to be
> able to perform remote sysadmin on Sun Solaris Cluster systems?

What servers are you using?

> I read in other posts that a terminal server can be connected to the
> ttya serial port of the servers and the terminal server can then be
> connected to the company local area network so that we can then telnet
> into the terminal server, choose the appropriate port and have accesss
> to the server console. But I also read that if the client session e.g
> PC having the telnet session to the terminal server has to reboot, then
> the terminal server would send a break to the server itself which would

No, rebootying the PC should not cause the console server to send a
break signal.

> Is there a safe and proven way to have access to the consoles using
> terminal servers and to avoid the above kind of pitfalls?

Yes. 

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