Specifications

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2002, David K. Z. Harris
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© 2002
David K. Z. Harris
Advanced Architectures (#8)
Ø Distributed Console Servers
² One master configuration file
² Client is redirected from ‘local’ server
² Logging continues if WAN fails!
HTS
B 1 2
HCS
2
logging
CC CS
1
Network
default
session
redirected
session
serial
In the case of Conserver, you can indicate in the configuration file which of a
number of distributed conserver hosts is maintaining the logs for any particular
device, as well as indicating which remote terminal server is directly
connected to the device.
You can then push this master configuration file to all of the distributed
conserver hosts.
Each client should try to connect with the conserver host that is closest to the
client for all connections. (You can do this via hostnames, or even with a local
host file entry.)
If a client (CC) connects to his local conserver host (CS1), but is trying to
reach a device that is connected to another conserver host (CS2), the client is
redirected to the other conserver host. The client session is then connected
with the session of the desired device.