5

Process for configuring network settings on a headless rack mount device

view full story
linux-howto

http://serverfault.com – I'm with a small company that plans to sell a rack mounted network appliance which is configurable via a web interface (think of a router configuration page sort of deal), and I'm wondering in large data center like environments what the process usually is for the initial setup of such systems. The main question is, if the system is headless, how do you get initial remote access to it? Do companies usually first plug a server into a monitor/keyboard/mouse in order to configure the network settings before mounting it in a rack? How else would they know what the IP address of the machine was if (HowTos)

grtyyu's picture
Submitted by grtyyu on 10/26/2012 – Made popular on 10/26/2012

Stories similar to Process for configuring network settings on a headless rack mount device

I am purchasing a rack mounted server and I have the option of also purchasing one of two types of railings:

Rapid Rails for Dell Rack Versa Rails, Round Hole Universal

Is there any difference between the two? Which one will mount the server correctly in my rack? Does it matter which type of rails I buy?

I'm primarily used to using Computer Towers as basic servers for the company I've been administrating for a while. And we now wish to move away from that to a rack facility.

I have no idea (not the slightest clue) as to how these things work. There's just a few questions I would like to ask:

Do rack-mounter servers have OS's? Do I configure these servers directly or from another computer?

What would be the best way to go about using an Arch Linux computer as a Rack (as in Ruby Rack, not an actual rack server) server? Here's what I want to be able to do:

Automatically deploy on a git push to the server.

I want to buy a server rack that will hold at least 3 servers (the servers are yet to be purchased as well).

We would like something that can be locked so it's not easy to walk off with one of the servers in the rack.

I've never purchased a server rack before and I have no idea who the reputable vendors are. Is it best to buy the rack and the servers themselves from the same company?

I came across these two items of non-integer rack unit height: 1. This rack mount kit which seems to be trying to make the best of the slightly-taller-than-1U form factor of the Cisco ASA5505. 2. This 1.5U Server Case that espouses the merits of a case height between 1RU and 2RU.

My questions are as follows:

A. (1) seems to protrude 1/8 RU above and below the rack unit it is bolted in.

Possible Duplicate: Cable Management Policy

My company has 1 42U server rack which is about 1/3 full of equipment. Things have been added a bit at a time, sometimes in quite a hurry. And now the back of the rack is a scary mess of cables.

I am in the planning phase of re-cabling our 5 racks in one of our offices and I would like to ask for some guidance on how you go, or would go about managing cables that goes between racks. In our situation we have 5 racks where the furthest to the right is our main patch panel for 300 floor ports. The rack next to it is our main comms rack where main switches and ISP routers are located.

input:

Code: ref.1;rack.1;1    #group1 ref.1;rack.1;2    #group1 ref.1;rack.2;1    #group2 ref.2;rack.3;1    #group3 ref.2;rack.3;2    #group3 ref.2;rack.3;3    #group3 Among records from same group (i.e.

I'm trying to mount a nfs network share in various OSs (ubuntu 10.10/10.10 server/11.10) but continually get the same error:

mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 128.251.xxx.xxx:/Systems

I have verified that I have nfs-common installed on my machine.