Specifications

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2002, David K. Z. Harris
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David K. Z. Harris
Basic Architectures (#4)
Ø Client can access from anywhere
on your network
² Terminal Server is located physically
near consoles
² Console Server App host doesn’t have
to be close to monitored consoles.
CCCS
1
HTS
A 1 2
H
Network
client
session
logging
and
session
Async serial
The console client (CC) can be anywhere on your network.
+ dialed in from home (through your dialup authentication)
+ across the network; on another floor; in another building
+ across the WAN, from another location
If you need to access across the Internet, we suggest that you use SSH to get to
your home network, and then use a client on a machine on your network,
rather than using a client on your laptop from the terminal room, for (we hope)
perfectly obvious reasons.
Asynchronous serial connections do have length limitations, so you need to
have your terminal servers (TS) close to the devices that you want to control
remotely. (If you are using serial cards in your Console Server (CS), then that
also needs to live near the equipment that will be attached to it.)