From: John Christian (john.christian@TheCReGroup.com)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 17:07:03 EDT
My colleague just installed Solaris 9 on ~20 hosts (440's and 240's) and
forgot to label them before taking holiday.What's a quick way to verify that
the terminal session I'm logged into corresponds to a specific machine in a
rack? I'd like to invoke something that flashes the lights, sounds a beep, or
shoots a flare. Yes, I can drag in my laptop and serial cables, but that's not
very elegant.
Snags:
Many of the hosts are already in use, so destructive tests like pulling
network cables or rebooting is out.
Eject won't open the CD tray unless a disk is mounted. Since automountd is
disabled, if I drop in a CD I'll have to try to mount on each server which is
time consuming.
echo [Ctrl+v][Ctrl+g] doesn't seem to ring any bells. At least, not that I can
discern amongst three racks of running hosts.
Hopes:
I have all the IPs and passwords.
Most hosts are dual power supplied. Is there a mechanism at the OS level that
says "Warning: power supply A is now a doorstop" ?
TIA, will summarize,
-John
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