Topic: remote-access

• Serial and out-of-band consoles for servers that keep access when the network is down

  A serial console (console=ttyS0,115200 plus a getty on the line), a cloud provider's serial console feature, or IPMI/BMC Serial-over-LAN each give an administrator a way into a server that has no working network stack — the situation a purely SSH-based access plan cannot survive.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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