Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwawayboise 1723 days ago
Still is that where I work. Doesn't help if you need serial console access, for that you'll need a laptop and a USB/serial dongle, or an actual old school serial terminal such as a VT100, VT220, etc.
1 comments

In a previous life, I and a biz partner ran a web company on about 5 servers. We cabled the serial ports together in a daisy chain, used serial port consoles, and had software running on every system to access the ports. This way, if a system died, you just had to ssh into the system connected to it and you had access to the failed system's console. These were Supermicro servers, so the pre-boot screens and all that were also available. It came in very handy and saved us lots of trips to Hurricane Electric.