Re: [gentoo-user] Remote administration of a server

[Daniel van Ham Colchete]

On 5/14/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:42:45 -0300
> "Daniel van Ham Colchete" <daniel.colchete@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Thinking about other options, does anyone have any other tip for me? Am
> I
> > going in the right direction?
>
> The two options you've mentioned are quite different. One gives console
> access, the other basically cures HD fails. The latter is clearly a job
> for your hosting company, I think. And there's an old, proven way for
> the task "console access": forget about that graphics output on that
> computer and learn to trust in good ol' serial connections :-)
> certainly cheaper than KVM-over-IP.
>
> Another option would be for the servers to default to netbooting and
> fall back to HD on boot. Then you were able to switch on the service
> offering the netboot images on some fall-back servers on-demand. I
> think this is somewhat like your USB idea. Or generally use netboot (w/
> redundant servers) and forget about the HD fails alltogether (i.e.,
> have some remote login program in your initrd).
>
> All these options still won't give you the opportunity to power-cycle
> your machines, which might be the only option left under some
> circumstances. A hw watchdog can probably reduce the impact of that
> problem a lot.
>
> -hwh
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>
Hi Hans!

Yeah! Direct netboot is a very nice idea too... I can't to it with one kind
of server I'll have but with the clustered ones that I'll be nice! To
improve reliability I could make a copy of a healthy image to the node's
hard drive every time it boots, so it's not dependent on a NFS server all
the time (just to boot).


Best
Daniel