On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 21:28 +0100, nodata wrote:
Am 2009-11-18 20:50, schrieb Jesse Keating:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 20:34 +0100, nodata wrote:
>> If the servers are in locked racks and you require a reboot to get
>> access to a grub prompt which is not password protected, then the outage
>> would trip the monitoring system.
>>
>
> The server is in a locked rack, but the console access to the server
> isn't? How far down the strawman path are where?
huh? All servers are in locked racks, with a few KVM terminals.
The places I've cared about security of the systems wouldn't allow
anybody without a key to our rack to access the console. You'd have to
unlock the rack in order to access the KVM or to plug anything into the
machines.
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