[Info-vax] Monitoring serial consol ports.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hi.

Due to some weird reboots of your prod system, I'd like to
monitor/log output on the consol port.

The port (the usual RS232 serial port on an DS20) is connected
to a terminal server and it works perfectly to use some
terminal emulator (Putty in our case) to connect to the
consol and do anything one could do localy.

Now I'm trying to get one of the other DS20's to connect to
this port and simply log anything written to it to a file.

I create a device using the usual "telnet/create..." command.

Then I've tried to hack something together using DCL, but it
seems as the DCL READ command lacks something, it send
something to the console which is constantly interpreted
as a login attempt. I've tried read/prompt="", but no.

And it is also instantly terminating the READ giving an
empty return value, just spinning around in the loop.

I could also be some SET TERM paramater that is "wrong".
I've done the some like /hardcopy/type_ahead/altypeahd
which looked logical to me.

Now, while I guess that a small C prog using proper QIO's
against the TNAxxx device would work better, I come to
think of the old PCM (Polycenter Console Manager).

Wasn't the old PCM released as freeware?
I seem to remember some download site someplace which
had the PCM kits !?

Any other input on catching the consol output is welcome.

Regards,
Jan-Erik.