{"id":11093,"date":"2020-06-08T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2020-06-08T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:43:55","slug":"using-a-raspberry-pi-or-any-linux-pc-as-a-serial-console-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11093","title":{"rendered":"Using a Raspberry Pi (or any Linux PC) as a Serial Console Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pi-Console-Server.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11127 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pi-Console-Server-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pi-Console-Server-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pi-Console-Server.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A handy trick I learnt recently from this video (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T-bBr5WKuH0\">ICX Serial Console Server with Raspberry Pi by Terry Henry<\/a>) which I&#8217;ve condensed into this screenshot guide. In short the &#8216;screen&#8217; command in Linux can be used to turn any device into a serial console server &#8211; very handy if you need &#8216;out of band&#8217; access to the management console of devices. This can be very handy for Firewalls\/Routers\/Network Switches where a misconfiguration (and forgetting to set a rollback) can lead to the administrators network connection to the device being cut off.<\/p>\n<p>This guide assumes you have some experience of using the Raspberry Pi (although this will work on many other types of hardware) and Linux.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handy trick I learnt recently from this video (ICX Serial Console Server with Raspberry Pi by Terry Henry) which I&#8217;ve condensed into this screenshot guide. In short the &#8216;screen&#8217; command in Linux can be used to turn any device into a serial console server &#8211; very handy if you need &#8216;out of band&#8217; access to the management console of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11093\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,479,20],"tags":[518,515,514,516,517],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-networking","category-software","tag-console","tag-pi","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-screen","tag-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}