Console server

FIXME: Some addresses are reported to fail

FIXME: Check the ports list for accuracy

Sentinel32, with 2 power supplies

Connecting to the SCS

The SCS has two uplinks, one is on an independent uplink from the colo's network (to allow out of band access even in case our switch is dead/unreachable), one is on our internal network:

• External IP: 64.156.25.110
• Internal IP: 10.0.0.220
• As of March 20, 2006, those addresses answer neither ping nor SSH.

Use ssh scs from a server of the cluster, or ssh scs-ext.wikimedia.org from anywhere

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 

Current Configuration

• I have completely redone this mess as of 9/8/06. When I was testing these a lot of the ports did not respond to the console, so I would presume that they just did not have a getty on inittab.
• From now on, the current configuration will just be on the scs, I won't update the wiki past this.

1:csw1
2:asw2
3:asw3
4:csw4
5:csw5



16:srv1
17:db1
18:db2
19:db3
20:db4
21:amane
22:bacon
23:webster
24:holbach
25:albert
26:suda
27:ixia
28:adler
29:ariel
30:samuel
31:thistle
32:lomaria

Old Configuration

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/
• photos of it, taken by mr_bill http://www.mrbill.net/photos/consoleserver/ - appears to be down