Specifications

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2002, David K. Z. Harris
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David K. Z. Harris
How do you work today?
Ø How many of you, in class today,
are still on-call?
Ø How many of you are PRIMARY
on-call for some task today?
Ø How many have deployed
consoles remote access?
Ø How many can access important
consoles at your office, from the
conference today, SECURELY?
If you support many machines, you may be called often to check on one of
many devices,perhaps in many different locations.
If you only support a few critical machines, being able to diagnose a problem
quickly is important to you.
Maybe you need to support your companies e-presence servers, In this case,
time is money, and downtime is money lost!
Remote access to your serial consoles can let you quickly diagnose a problem,
and can help you recover from many problems. It can even give you the clues
you need to decide if you have to go visit the machine personally, but you will
also probably know what parts you need to bring with you, which will save
you a second trip.
Sure, your job could become a bit more sedentary, but you’ll be able to go and
get some exercise, knowing that you can quickly get on the console of any
device that you care about if the need arises.