configuring FC as a headless server

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 02:39 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:39, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Some thoughts based on recent experience:
> >  - UPS!
> >  - make sure the UPS is not 7 years old with a dead battery. i.e,  regular maintenance and monitoring
> >  - use journaled filesystems.  that way you'll be less likely to need to drag out the Keyboard/Video/Mouse just
> >     to perform fsck when the system looses power (in my case I had bad UPS and a power outage.. but someone
> >    could kick-out the plug by mistake too)
> 
> Or spend the $150 roughly for a good Avocent 4-port KVM and cables
> (cables from Newegg are cheap and good). Then you always have that
> solution available when needed, also good for testing/config of new
> boxes.
> 

I would say "And spend..." rather than "Or spend..." in my case since my headless system is my main file server.

Rodolfo,
My desktop systems are notebooks.  Do the Avocent KVMs work with notebooks?

Regards,
Allen