on 11-15-2008 11:59 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:17 PM, nate <centos-T6AQWPvKiI1cRAk/VAjCeQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately, I can't leave a monitor attached to the server all the >>> time. The server is in a shared cabinet @ a 3rd party ISP, and they >>> lock the cabinets once we're done working with it. The last lockup was >>> about 6 days ago, and previous one about 8 days ago. There's no >>> consitancy. >>> >>> How can I redirect all console output to a file instead? >> Configure a serial console, connect the console to another >> system and use something like minicom to log the console to a file. >> You can't really log to the local system in this situation as >> you likely won't capture the event(if you did you would of >> seen the error in the system logs) >> >> In my experience most of these kinds of problems are related >> to bad ram. >> >> If your running CentOS 4.x configure netdump to send the kernel >> dumps to another server, if your using CentOS 5.x configure >> diskdump(?) to store the dump to local disk. >> >> Run memtest86 on the system for a few days, replace the system >> with a known working one so you can take the broken system off >> site from the ISP for diagnostics. >> >> I like running cerberus http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/ >> as a burn-in tool, if the system can survive that running for >> a couple days it should be good. In running against a hundred or >> so systems I don't recall it taking longer than a few hours >> to crash the system if there was a problem. >> >> nate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > That machine doesn't have a serial port (why do vendors think serial > ports are obsolete????), so is there any other way to send to logs to > a different machine then? > Does it have any out of bandwidth management like Dell's drac or HP's ILO? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081117/4726596d/attachment-0004.sig>