Linux Based Console Server

Iain Rae

Computing Officer
Division of Informatics.

iainr@dcs.ed.ac.uk
+44 (0) 131 650 5202

2001

Revision History
Revision 0.523 February 2001
First Draft

This document describes how to install, configure, and maintain a Console Serverbased around a PC running linux, a multi-port serial card and the conserver package.


Table of Contents
Overview
Requirements
Hardware

Overview

The department maintains a large number of Linux and Solaris servers, we configure them to allow console access via a serial port partly because of space issues and partly because this makes them much easier to maintain remotely. This means that we need to have a system which supports a large number of serial connections. As we are spread over a number of locations we also need a system which can deal with this transparently.