[Info-vax] Monitoring serial consol ports.

Rich Jordan jordan at ccs4vms.com
Mon Oct 22 14:17:00 EDT 2012


On Oct 21, 4:49 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> John E. Malmberg wrote 2012-10-21 22:51:
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> > On 10/21/2012 11:23 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> >> Hi.
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> >> Due to some weird reboots of your prod system, I'd like to
> >> monitor/log output on the consol port.
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> >> 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.
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> > What type of terminal server?
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> Sorry. It's a Lantronix UDS2100 2-port server.www.lantronix.com/uds2100
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> > 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.
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> I do not think that is enough, we have to constantly read and
> save the output.
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> 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.
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> Jan-Erik.
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> > Regards,
> > -John

C-Kermit for VMS may be able to do what you want.



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