Wilson,
Seems like you received plenty of good sugestions about KVM switches to 
solve your problem.

I just want to give you a different perspective to the problem. You 
probably remember our old IRIX servers. They are still running, in the 
same conditions as your Solaris boxes. What I do is that whenever I have 
to reboot them is the next: I plug a laptop to the IRIX box, with a 
serial cable. The laptop has installed a piece of open source software 
that emulates the unix environment and then you can see the whole 
shutdown/boot process in the pc monitor.

Is simpler and cheaper. You can stop by whenever you want to check how 
the thing works.


oscar




Wilson L Ndovie wrote:

> NAG Group:
> We am planning to purchase a new KVM switch for
> our server room.  The majority of the machines
> are Windows servers, but there are also a couple
> of UNIX boxes in (Sun Solaris).  Currently,
> the Sun systems are running as "headless"
> servers, but connecting a monitor and keyboard
> would sometimes be useful for troubleshooting
> purposes, especially if the system does not come
> up cleanly during a restart (which is actually
> quite rare).
> At any rate, since we will be purchasing a KVM
> for the Windows machines, it might be nice to
> have a "multi-platform" switch that we can use
> with both the Windows and Sun systems at the
> same time.  We considered getting a KVM for the
> Windows machines and possibly a serial console
> switch for the Suns. but something that could
> combine the two platforms to use a single monitor
> and keyboard whould actually be quite handy.
> Has anyone out there made use of a multi-platform
> KVM that will work with both Windows and Sun Solaris
> systems?   Any recommendations?
> All input will be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Wilson Ndovie
> Jim Brown
>
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> Wilson L. Ndovie
> PC Support
> Geography Department
> Michigan State University
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Oscar Castaneda
Michigan State University