A possible alternative, although probably not one you'd want to leave in
place permanently:
http://www.get-console.com/airconsole/
-Pete
On 2016-02-02 06:11, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:15:28PM +0000, Erik Sundberg wrote:
We have one of these nice new and fancy Cisco ASR920-24SZ, just
realized it doesn't have an RJ45 Console port only USB. When we deploy
devices at our pop we wire the console port to a terminal\console
server, well that doesn't work for a usb console device.
So what is everyone doing for out of band management via the console
when it's a usb only device?
Is there something I am missing?
Likely not. I've seen most equipment makers start to ignore serial
console.
The default these appears to be moving to a uBoot/PXE style network
setup
where you push an image and such via TFTP/DHCP into the device.
Is there a console server for USB?
I've not seen one show up, but there are other devices like this
which the DIY industry has started to build:
http://freetserv.github.io/
I have a side business i'm tinkering with and these are open source
hardware. If there is interest, I'd be willing to build these in
volume and
drive the cost down.
It would not be difficult to do a giant USB hub that was similar.
Does cisco make an USB to RJ45 Jack adapter?
Yes, but I'm always concerned about what boot messages are lost
or things you can't quite do properly (like send break, etc) to get
into
the device as you're waiting for the USB to initalize, driver to
present
to OS, etc.. Maybe they spent more time thinking about this than I
am aware, but it's something I've not had a proper solution explained
to me
for.
- Jared
