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 > > > > > > > > =============================================== > Wilson L. Ndovie > PC Support > Geography Department > Michigan State University > > -- Oscar Castaneda Michigan State University