Are there any reprocussions to leaving the consoles unplugged on HP L & N Class machines? We are cramped for space in the server room and we are thinking about unplugging all the console/terminals and only keeping one terminal to plug in when we need to log in directly on a box.
I did a small test - I unplugged the terminal and plugged it back in while the server was running. It recognized the terminal fine after plugging it back in. Then I unplugged the terminal and rebooted the server. It rebooted fine with no errors in the rc.log. But once I plugged the terminal back in after the reboot all of the messages from the reboot started scrolling on the screen like they had been saved in a buffer and were now being output to the screen. Obviously, my concern is that this buffer might fill up and cause problems if the consoles/terminals are unplugged for a long period of time.