WW: Colo Vending Machine

Tue Feb 21 15:59:59 UTC 2012

http://www.raritan.com/products/kvm-over-ip/

Owen

On Feb 21, 2012, at 5:57 AM, -Hammer- wrote:

> Can someone give me a link or part number on the Raritan site? I see LCD consoles but they are the generic slide out versions. Looking for the netbook concept referenced below....
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> -Hammer-
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> "I was a normal American nerd"
> -Jack Herer
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> On 2/21/2012 3:51 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> +1 for Raritan... I was very happy with their KVM switches at my last job.
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>> Owen
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>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Matthew Black wrote:
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>>> Take a look at Raritan. We use their product to gain remote access to system consoles. No more driving 100s of miles. Ok, it would be 200 feet for us.
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>>> matthew black
>>> information technology services bh-188
>>> california state university, long beach
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org]
>>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:35 AM
>>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>>> Subject: Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
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>>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, John Osmon wrote:
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>>>> At my $JOB[-1] they laughed at me when I pulled a Wyse out of the
>>>> trash bin and stuck it on a spare crash cart.
>>>> 
>>>> Then I fixed something while they were still looking for USB-Serial,
>>>> etc.
>>> Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, video&  mouse.  i.e. a folding netbook shaped VGA monitor with USB keyboard and touchpad.  I know there are folding rackmount versions of this (i.e. from Dell), but I want something far more portable.  Twice in the past month, I'd had to drive
>>> 100+ miles to a remote colo and took a full size flat panel monitor and
>>> keyboard with me.  Has anyone actually built this yet?
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