Re: [foxboro] Remoteing "G" boxes
- From: Kevin FitzGerrell <fitzgerrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:40:59 +1300 (NZDT)
Stan,
A couple more comments on going the KVM route:
1) If you're remoting F (and probably G) boxes with KVM extenders, make sure you
get a set that emulates the keyboard and mouse locally so the box can boot even
if the remote is unavailable for some reason (powered off or disconnected). May
want to emulate video too.
2) Supported video resolution over Cat5 KVM extenders typically drops as the
cable length increases, ie 1280x1024 to 300 feet and 1024x768 to 1000 feet.
Regards,
Kevin FitzGerrell
Carter Holt Harvey, Ltd.
+64 27 460 9994
Quoting stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> We are looking at replacing about 9 "D" boxes with "G" boxes on one of
> our
> nodes. There are 2 locations were these boxes go that we have had way
> too
> many failures. In both cases the causes are the environment that the
> boxes
> live in. Even though we have tried to design some protection for them it
> is
> proving to not be enough.
>
> Location "A" is about 150 cable feet from the equipment room. Location
> "B"
> is more like 700 cable feet away.
>
> So, we are considering placing the "G" boxes for one, or both of these
> locations in a equipment room, and remoteing the mouse/keyboard,
> keypad,
> and monitor(s) (some of these are dual headed). I was wondering what
> other
> people might have done here. We already have one node that has USB
> extenders to "G" boxes (supplied by Foxboro), but I'm not certain what
> the
> maximum distance we can use this for is. As far as the GCIO, I'm
> thinking
> that the GCIO itself could be in the equipment room, isn't the link
> between
> the keypad and the GCIO already RS-485? And anyone have any ideas on
> the
> video?
>
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