You know the text I’m talking about…when you walk up to an ESX host and it has the hostname and IP address along with instructions to “press ALT-F1 to open the ESX Server Console, press ALT-F11 to return to this screen”.
Yeah, that text. Where does it come from? It’s not a typical tty…it has a screen saver (if you let it be for a while it’ll go blank). I can’t figure out for the life of me where it’s started, or where it get’s it’s data from…well I found some things…but not where the obviously non-dynamic (text other than ip address, hostname) data comes from.
The point of my looking for how it get’s that data is because we recently changed the IP addresses of all our ESX hosts. The console (and consequentially webAccess) were on a public LAN. For security reasons, we didn’t want this, so we put them on a private LAN. Nothing difficult…took care of the entire process from VI Client (add new console interface, set as primary, remove old console interface). I even went to the trouble (ok, I might have OCD) of physically standing in front of the box and moving the new vswif1 so that it’s named vswif0, just because it was irritating me.