Cluster maintenance/MTBF II

[Bohn Christopher A Capt AFRL/IFSD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dylan A. Loomis [mailto:dylan@aero.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 11:47 AM
[...] 
> Has anyone tried out a PC Weasel 2000?  Its supposedly an ISA 
> card that mimics
> a keyboard, and screen so that you can control the machine as 
> though you were
> at the console, through a serial port on the card.  It's at:
> 
http://www.realweasel.com/

[...]


Good day,

Have no experience with this, but it strikes me as useful.  We've talked a
bit about sysadmin through a serial port, and a card would mean one less
daemon sitting on the compute nodes.  And, as the web page points out, this
works even without the OS laoded.  Forgot to look at the price when I
visited the page, so I don't know about the usefulness/price ratio.

One other thing I noticed ... they mention they're open-source because they
provide a source license when you purchase the card; this doesn't quite
sound OSD-compliant to me, but that's another debate.

Take care,
cb
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