[BBLISA] Capturing system console output remotely

[Edward Ned Harvey]

I did this once years ago.  Here's all I remember:
 
There are some switches you can use to tell the kernel to redirect console to a serial instead of VGA.  You won't get anything pre-kernel (for example, POST messages) though.
 
You also want to edit your inittab - I think the standard getty ignores the kernel option or something like that.
 
You'll figure it out pretty well on your own, provided you watch the VGA and the serial at the same time during bootup.
 
 
 
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Rich Lenihan
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:55 PM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: [BBLISA] Capturing system console output remotely
 
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? 
 
Thanks, Rich.
 
 
 
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