[Info-vax] Monitoring serial consol ports.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John E. Malmberg wrote 2012-10-21 22:51:
> On 10/21/2012 11:23 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What type of terminal server?
>

Sorry. It's a Lantronix UDS2100 2-port server.
www.lantronix.com/uds2100

> Some newer models can be set up to store the last few thousand bytes that
> were output to the console, so all you have to do is query it.

I do not think that is enough, we have to constantly read and
save the output.

Another option is to setup a PC with Putty with logging enabled,
I have tried that before to save boot logs, but a but unpractical
for saving over several days. That is why I'd liek to use one of
the other VMS systems.

Jan-Erik.


>
> Regards,
> -John
>
>