The console server is the co-star of your production. It is possible to do all of this without a console server, but it definatly would be harder.

For those of you who don't know what a console server is, I'll explain a bit. A console is a text based connection to a machine. For our linux farm machines, we tell it to direct all of it's standard output out the

Software:

• console software (whatever it may be)
• expect
• ICABOD scripts with accompanying expect scripts
  
  • ICABOD/install
  • ICABOD/install.exp
  • ICABOD/config
  • ICABOD/config.exp