How to stop freezing in the data center?

How to stop freezing in the data center? It's very simple - you need to start configuring devices remotely.

I was at training in America and a colleague showed me his toy - AirConsole . I fired up and ordered myself the same.

Now I often use it to configure various equipment. What is the convenience?
- Now I don’t have to sit inside the cold data center during setup: I hooked the box to the console port and left.
- The radio channel is quite powerful, so you can safely sit in a comfortable chair and customize everything from an iPad or phone. I use the iPad.

How it works?

The AirConsole device repeats the commands you enter from your mobile device to the console port of your device. To do this, it becomes an accurate WiFi access and you connect to it with the special program Get Console and safely enter all commands into the device remotely.
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For example, how to set up a small device in my home:

1. Turn on the device (in the picture my NGFW PA-200) and turn on AirConsole, connect the AirConsole console cable to the network device.



2. Take an iPad and connect it to the AirConsole WiFi network.



3. Adjust the speed and port, if necessary. I set the speed to 9600:



4. We type the command to configure and write to the running config.



5. Done!

There is another possibility: you can remove the console cable and plug it into the USB of the laptop - I use it this way sometimes: the driver is installed automatically on MacOS, the command to use is:

screen /dev/tty.device_name 9600

It is made far in Australia, but in my case it reached Denver in 3 days. For comparison: my colleague ordered it already from Moscow - it arrived in a month. I strongly advise.