[j-nsp] What do for a terminal server?

[Neal R]

  David,

    Is my desire for a dedicated serial console connection as dated as
the Cisco IOS interface? I see dedicated ethernet management ports on
the Extreme products we're evaluating ... but I don't think the Juniper
4350 has this feature. Our biggest customers might want M7i/M10i sized
boxes but most will prefer something smaller.

    We do a lot of remote management and with the Cisco boxes I like the
RS-232 link for commissioning and for the monitoring of boxes that are
badly behaved - in the Cisco world the console often gives clues to
failure modes that don't make it to syslog when the box is under stress.




                                                 Neal

David Ball wrote:
>  While I tend to use in-band management with the Juniper devices
> we've deployed (via the dedicated/secured eth ports), I've used some
> MRV products (mrv.com) to a limited extent elsewhere for OOB
> management (the InReach and/or LX-series products).
>
> David
>
>
> On 6/24/07, Neal R <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> wrote:
>>
>>   Ladies and gentlemen,
>>
>>      I've recently developed a burning desire to expunge Cisco products
>> from our network and every single customer network that we maintain. I'm
>> awaiting the shipment of a Juniper 4350, I've already got an Extreme
>> switch for training purposes, and today I started the process of moving
>> from Cisco Call Manager Express to a Trixbox solution.
>>
>>     The one bit I'm having trouble with is the terminal server function.
>> We've got Cisco 2509/2511 all over the place and don't see a good
>> alternative to this in the market. I've asked the MikroTik forums if
>> they might add a terminal server module to their appliance OS, I've
>> asked the Soekris mailing list if anyone is building terminal servers
>> based on the Net4801, and I'd like to hear from all of you on this point
>> - how do you do out of band management for clusters of Juniper routers?
>>
>>
>>                                                                     
>> Neal
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