Actually, I do lots of work at customers that do shell out the money for redundancy. You often see IT departments selling availability. A nurse in the hospital doesn't really care how it's implemented, but she must have access to a patients medical records at all times. Loss of a connection, and hence requiring logging in again is acceptable. The Oracle service with the records being down for 4 hours because a piece of hardware failed and needed replacement isn't acceptable. That costs money, and perhaps lives. And that's not just hospitals. Banks, government, telcos, energy providers, airlines and others all demand that services are always available.

you should get a console concentrator, i can get to the hard serial console of any system from anywhere. =P

Goodie. You read on your console log you have faulty memory on your mail server, and it refuses to boot. Senior management is pissed. Now what?

Abigail

In reply to Re: Embed passwords (SSH) by Abigail-II
in thread Embed passwords (Acme::Clutter idea) by Solo

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