[Info-vax] Monitoring serial consol ports.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Rich Jordan wrote 2012-10-22 20:17:
> 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
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> C-Kermit for VMS may be able to do what you want.
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OK, well worth a look. I guess it can connect directly to IP/port
without needing a telnet TNAnnn device?

Jan-Erik.