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Useful URL’s for after class
Ø Conserver Software
² www.conserver.com/
Ø Console Connection Guides
² www.conserver.com/consoles/
Ø Serial BREAK testing
² www.conserver.com/consoles/breakoff.html
Ø Serial adapters and cables
² www.americable.com
Ø More at the end of the tutorial
Celeste Stokely has a wonderful archive at http://www.stokely.com/, with lots
of useful information for system administrators. Of particular interest is the
page related to serial consoles;
http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/index.html
The console and serial port switches link on the page above has info about
keyboard/video/mouse switches, RS-232 serial switches, and terminal server
devices and console servers. (And if you aren’t sure what some if these are,
then you’re in the right class.)
Americable has built a number of specialty cables and adapters for Console
Server use, as well as bundling assorted kits for various Console Server
hardware vendors RJ-45 wiring formats (Annex/Bay/Nortel, Cisco/Lantronix,
IOLAN, and iTouch/Xyplex). If you need cables in custom lengths, they have
the recipes, just call and ask for the parts.