Re: Need "console switch" - any ideas?

[Brett Lemoine <bl@unixshaman.com>]

Jim Dennis spake thusly:
> 
> > The only downside of using serial consoles with Suns is that Suns have
> > the annoying habit of dropping into the ROM monitor when power to the
> > console server is lost (they interpret this as a "break" condition).
> > As best I can tell this is the case for any serial console hooked up
> > to a Sun, even a dumb terminal.
> 	
> 	It is.  It's happened to me many times.  (Seems silly to
> 	*have* to put your rarely used serial console terminal
> 	on your UPS --- but that's Sun's idea of a joke on 
> 	all of us).  What were those little Stanford boys thinking?

Sun Consulting has software for Solaris 2.6 and earlier that permits
the changing of the character interpreted as the 'break'.  It's not
cheap, but worth the price of not watching a couple of hundred Sun
systems halt 'cause some idiot tripped over a power strip.  Ask
your Sun sales rep about Sun Consulting's ZSBRK package.

bl
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