Console server

Sentinel32, with 2 power supplies

Connecting to the SCS

Use ssh scs-ext.wikimedia.org

SCS commands

• connecting to a server in interactive mode: connect server_name
• escape interactive mode: Esc + A (uppercase)
• symlinks to the serial ports and their buffers: /lsi/ports
• save saves configuration changes to non-volatile memory
• lsp lists the serial ports and their names
• lsc lists active connections
• stty configures serial port parameters, but to make the changes permanent, /etc/rc.d/rc.serial must be edited
• to rename a port: stty -F /lsi/ports/port23 --name=zwinger
• to clear a port buffer: stty --clear -F /lsi/ports/buf_name
• read chapter 9 of the manual (linked below) for more

The port connectors are in four chunks of 8 ports, upper and lower rows of four. In each chunk the bottom four ports are labelled 1-4 and top 5-8. Leftmost chunk is ports 1-8, then 9-16, 17-24 and 25-32:

5/5 6/6 7/7 8/8  5/13 6/14 7/15 8/16  5/21 6/22 7/23 8/24  5/29 6/30 7/31 8/32
1/1 2/2 3/3 4/4  1/ 9 2/10 3/11 4/12  1/17 2/18 3/19 4/20  1/25 2/26 3/27 4/28 

Audit 2007/09/06

• port# name
• 1 hypatia -check
• 2 asw2-pmtpa -check
• 3 asw3-pmtpa -check
• 4 csw4-pmtpa -check
• 5 csw5-pmtpa -check
• 6 khaldun -check
• 7 storage2 -check
• 8 csw1-pmtpa -check
• 9 storage1 -check
• 10 port10 -check (Cross-Cage Connection}
• 11 alrazi -check
• 12 avicenna -check
• 13 zwinger -check
• 14 srv0 -check
• 15 will -check
• 16 srv1 -check
• 17 db4 -check
• 18 db3 -check
• 19 db2 -check
• 20 db1 -check
• 21 amane
• 22 bacon -check
• 23 webster -check
• 24 holbach
• 25 isidore
• 26 suda -check
• 27 ixia
• 28 adler
• 29 ariel
• 30 samuel -check
• 31 thistle -check
• 32 lomaria -check

Old Configuration

• This list will no longer be updated. The really isn't any since in keeping up two copies of the same data. What is on the scs is what is connected. But really, this list is definitely no longer accurate as of now. Solar 23:46, 8 September 2006 (PDT)

1: will
2: csw5-pmtpa
3. avicenna
4. bacon
5. dalembert
6. diderot
7. equ1
8. csw5-pmtpa
9. sq1
10. suda
11. hypathia
12. csw2-pmtpa
13. kludge
14. kalduhn
15. csw1-pmtpa
Solar: I must have some setting wrong, but its black on white.
16. ixia
17. zwinger
18. Sun
19. srv47
20. srv27
21. srv28
22.
Solar: I believe this port may be bad.
23. srv29
24. srv30
25. webster
26. holbach
27. samuel
28. albert
29. srv50
30. moreri
31. adler
32. ariel

links

• http://www.thinklogical.com/products/console_servers/sentinel32.php
• review http://www.sunhelp.org/review-hardware-sentinel32.php (through archive.org)
• manual http://www.thinklogical.com/support/manuals/scsManual.pdf
• software updates ftp://ftp.thinklogical.com/SCS/updates/