Re: Raritan Dominion SX Console servers.

and here's my 2 cents...

after following some links on their support site, i found the docs here:

http://www.raritan.com/_downloads/pdfs/products/user_man_dom_sx.pdf

after a quick scan through it, it doesn't look like they offer plain old
telnet-style access to the ports.  they do allow you to ssh into the box
and then connect to a console via their cli.  they even show:

    $ SSH -l dominion -t 192.168.51.225 "sconsole -u admin -a pass123 -p 2"

as an example of how to connect to port #2 with a username of admin and
password of pass123.  that's workable (from a conserver perspective),
but not ideal.

why? because when you do that you are going through what looks like
their own console management system.  you can be connected read-write or
read-only, you have an escape key that takes you to a cli for doing
things with the port (like sending a break), etc.  just an alternate
take on the conserver experience, really.  so, you have two layers of
console management going on - one on the box, another by conserver.

will the two play well together?  what's the definition of "well"?  ;-)
will it be easy to configure the box and have conserver talk to it?
perhaps.  take out "easy", and yeah, it could work.  assuming it can
handle 48 full-time ssh connections.  could it start getting complicated
if someone uses their web interface or another ssh connection to bump
you to read-only on the box but conserver still thinks it's read-write?
i'd think so.  impossible to work with?  nah.

those are just a few of my random thoughts.  can it be made to work?  i
think so.  would other things integrate "easier", yep.

remember, the flexibility of conserver makes it able to talk to many
things...you'll have to judge for yourself whether or not it *should*
talk to a particular thing.

(btw, in general the box does seem to have a lot of cool features)

Bryan