[BBLISA] Capturing system console output remotely

[Daniel Hagerty]

"Rich Lenihan" <rich at openadmin.com> writes:

> I would like to be able to capture all of the system messages that get
> printed to the console of my Linux servers. I would like to be able to
> capture this and log it remotely. syslog won't do it for me because I want
> to capture everything, boot-up messages, shutdown messages, and messages
> even when syslog isn't running, or the server's nic is down. The servers are
> HP ProLiants with HP iLO management cards, if that helps any. Has anyone
> done anything like this before? 

    Cyclades at least used to make some serial concentrator boxes that
were lovely for this sort of thing.  Remote serial console with full
recording and a lot of additional flexibility from being a 1U linux
box with a pile of serial ports.