Re: ddb input via IPMI virtual console

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	hello.  Since you're using IPMI, how about using a serial console in
the kernel and then using ipmitool to talk to DDB when/if the machine goes
down?  You should be able to do this and still have a virtual VGA console,
but kernel messages won't go there.  This also has the advantage that you
can run script(1) and capture DDB output and/or panic messages for
posterity if you need them.

-Brian

On Aug 6,  2:27pm, Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?= wrote:
} Subject: ddb input via IPMI virtual console
} It looks like my IPMI implementation always emulates a USB keyboard on 
} the virtual console. The real keyboards are PS/2 and I can't change that 
} because it runs on a wire physically passing a /real/ firewall, e. g.
} a constructive element of the building designed to confine a possible fire 
} in the server room. It's close to prohibitively expensive to install another 
} (USB) cable through that and I didn't think about it when I orderd power, 
} VGA and PS/2 cables to be routed through the firewall.
} 
} Can I have ddb input multiplexed from both PS/2 and USB?
>-- End of excerpt from Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=