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Nicholas Penney wrote:
> I am currently running conserver version 7.2.2 utilising several Perle
> CS9000's for a whole bunch of assorted Sun servers.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up conserver to use the RSC
> ports thta are available on newer sun harware (such as V800's)? If so,
> could you give me an example on how to set this up from your conserver.cf
> file?

We are using conserver to manage the serial ports on our RSC cards, but
we're not doing anything particularly interesting with them. We treat
them as regular console ports, attached to Cisco 32-port async serial
cards in 2600/3600 chassis. It would be nice if we had a script which
would automatically log in to the RSC card and switch to the redirected
console connection, but it hasn't been enough of an annoyance to
actually automate the process.

Were you, perhaps, referring to the use of conserver to manage each RSC
card like a single-port console server, via telnet?

-Trevor


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Trevor Fiatal -- trevor@seven.com -- http://www.seven.com/
Co-Founder, CSO
SEVEN
650.862.3715 (work/mobile)

Do the RSC ports support OpenSSL via SSH? My experience shows it as
being old-fashioned plain-text.


On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 08:20, Nicholas Penney wrote:
> Trevor,
>
> Yes, I would really like to be able to use conserver to connect to the
> RSC, using telnet or ssh, and drop me directly to the console prompt.
>
> Can you show me an example of one of your conserver config lines from a
> host using and RSC (changing any names etc. as necessary)?
>
> Trevor Fiatal said:
> > Nicholas Penney wrote:
> >> I am currently running conserver version 7.2.2 utilising several Perle
> >> CS9000's for a whole bunch of assorted Sun servers.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up conserver to use the
> >> RSC ports thta are available on newer sun harware (such as V800's)?
> >> If so, could you give me an example on how to set this up from your
> >> conserver.cf file?
> >
> > We are using conserver to manage the serial ports on our RSC cards, but
> > we're not doing anything particularly interesting with them. We treat
> > them as regular console ports, attached to Cisco 32-port async serial
> > cards in 2600/3600 chassis. It would be nice if we had a script which
> > would automatically log in to the RSC card and switch to the redirected
> > console connection, but it hasn't been enough of an annoyance to
> > actually automate the process.
> >
> > Were you, perhaps, referring to the use of conserver to manage each RSC
> > card like a single-port console server, via telnet?
> >
> > -Trevor
> >
> >
> > --
> > Trevor Fiatal -- trevor@seven.com -- http://www.seven.com/
> > Co-Founder, CSO
> > SEVEN
> > 650.862.3715 (work/mobile)
>
>
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Trevor,

Yes, I would really like to be able to use conserver to connect to the
RSC, using telnet or ssh, and drop me directly to the console prompt.

Can you show me an example of one of your conserver config lines from a
host using and RSC (changing any names etc. as necessary)?

Trevor Fiatal said:
> Nicholas Penney wrote:
>> I am currently running conserver version 7.2.2 utilising several Perle
>> CS9000's for a whole bunch of assorted Sun servers.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up conserver to use the
>> RSC ports thta are available on newer sun harware (such as V800's)?
>> If so, could you give me an example on how to set this up from your
>> conserver.cf file?
>
> We are using conserver to manage the serial ports on our RSC cards, but
> we're not doing anything particularly interesting with them. We treat
> them as regular console ports, attached to Cisco 32-port async serial
> cards in 2600/3600 chassis. It would be nice if we had a script which
> would automatically log in to the RSC card and switch to the redirected
> console connection, but it hasn't been enough of an annoyance to
> actually automate the process.
>
> Were you, perhaps, referring to the use of conserver to manage each RSC
> card like a single-port console server, via telnet?
>
> -Trevor
>
>
> --
> Trevor Fiatal -- trevor@seven.com -- http://www.seven.com/
> Co-Founder, CSO
> SEVEN
> 650.862.3715 (work/mobile)


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Tel: 07005 942 941 Fax: 07005 968 641
Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do.

Nicholas Penney wrote:
> Trevor,
>
> Yes, I would really like to be able to use conserver to connect to the
> RSC, using telnet or ssh, and drop me directly to the console prompt.
>
> Can you show me an example of one of your conserver config lines from a
> host using and RSC (changing any names etc. as necessary)?

As I mentioned, we don't currently use an autologin script to log in to
the RSC port and drop to the console. Instead, our standard operating
procedure is to log in to the RSC any time we find one not already in
'console pass-through' mode, and leave in console mode when we log out.
(The alternative would be to embed a RSC login ID and password into a
script used by conserver, and I am not in favor of storing usernames and
passwords in scripts.)

Here's an example of how you might set up conserver to directly access
your RSC cards instead of a terminal server hooked up to ttya. Note
that 'hostname-RSC' should resolve to the IP address for the conserver
card in the server, either via /etc/hosts or in DNS. 'conserver0' is
the name of the primary conserver host managing your consoles.

hostname:!hostname-RSC@conserver0:23:&.log:10m

Hope this helps.

-Trevor


--
Trevor Fiatal -- trevor@seven.com -- http://www.seven.com/
Co-Founder, CSO
SEVEN
650.862.3715 (work/mobile)