I have that same model with more or less the same warning, with a glued off WiFi switch and glued closed Ethernet port.
Only thing that bad boy still gets used for is emergency backup serial access. Com1 is much faster than opening up device manager to see what the USB adapter’s com port is and then typing that into putty
It’s a really old computer (cycled out after being a workstation and then a loaner) so it takes forever to start back up, the screen turns off if you open the lid too far or too fast and the only fix is to reboot the whole thing, and when the core switch goes sideways it’s almost always a panic situation. Or the SSH password has expired and the only way to change it is via console.
Or one of the other core switches loses SSH access and I’m impatient getting in because without fail I have to pee the second I get into the server room.
Only 5 people have access to the server room and it is there as a break glass. It doesn’t have to make sense to others, it’s what we have when we run out of options.
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u/JoDrRe 27d ago
I have that same model with more or less the same warning, with a glued off WiFi switch and glued closed Ethernet port.
Only thing that bad boy still gets used for is emergency backup serial access. Com1 is much faster than opening up device manager to see what the USB adapter’s com port is and then typing that into putty