Re: Need "console switch" - any ideas?

["Marc W. Mengel" <mengel@fnal.gov>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Jurgen Botz wrote:

> 
> My preferred way of doing this is to use a serial console server, as
> follows:
> 
> Stick a 32 or 64 port serial card into a PC (Cyclades makes good ones),
> run Linux or *BSD on the PC, and install Paul Vixie's excellent rtty
> package to serve up the serial ports (available from ftp.vix.com).

The other good option, software-wise is "conserver", either the original
OSU version, or the more featureful Purdue rewrite at
  ftp://ftp.physics.purdue.edu/pub/pundits/README.html
We've started using it quite heavily under Red Hat linux here at
Fermilab.  It has useful features like console logging, and in the
latest release, an interface to serial-port smart power strips, so
you can acutally power cycle machines remotely...

Marc