[H-GEN] HUMBUG cluster

David Jericho david.jericho at bytecomm.com.au
Tue Feb 11 01:50:55 EST 2003


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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:23:42PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> David Seikel wrote:
> | The voice of experience says, bring a monitor.
> 
> This doesn't sound necessary.  Unless you are tweaking BIOS
> stuff (which should happen rarely, if ever), why not just use
> serial consoles via a simple cable to some nearby box with a
> spare serial port -- most of the players in the cluster game
> will have turned up with a box of their own that can do this.
> After all, most of the time, you won't need a console at all.

This is exactly what I was getting at. It's a rare event we'll need to
actually get a console directly on any machine, and chances are people
won't mind if we borrow a monitor for a period of minutes to fix
something rather major.

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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