[Info-vax] Monitoring serial consol ports.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Johnny Billquist wrote 2012-10-23 13:20:
> On 2012-10-23 12:09, George Cornelius wrote:
>> In article <k64er2$nft$2 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> Rich Jordan wrote 2012-10-22 20:17:
>>
>>>> C-Kermit for VMS may be able to do what you want.
>>
>>> OK, well worth a look. I guess it can connect directly to IP/port
>>> without needing a telnet TNAnnn device?
>>>
>>> Jan-Erik.
>>
>> See below.
>>
>> I assume there is some kind of capture mode.
>
> [...]
>
> SET LINE is for communication with an actual line (physical, including
> through LAT). Check if there is a SET HOST command in that version of
> KERMIT as well. (There should be, if it's a sane version of C-Kermit, and
> that is what you use for IP.)


Nop, no SET HOST command. There is a HOST kommand, but that seems to
be something like the QUOTE command in FTP (commands sent to
the remote side).

If I run interactively, I can successfully use a simple :

$ telnet 10.32.137.212 /port=10001

which will log all consol output on my terminal.
But I've not been able to run that in batch. I get :

$ telnet  /nointer 10.32.137.212 /port=10001
%SYSTEM-W-NODEVAVL, no device available
%SMG-F-INVPAS_ID, invalid pasteboard-id
$!

Seems as you can't run the telnet client in batch at all.

And, to top of the joy here, I just managed to issue a
<Ctrl-P> against the prod server consol, took 10-15 min
to reboot...  Argh...

Jan-Erik.


>
> As for logging, that would be LOG SESSION, I think.
>
>> Note that various terminal emulators such as Reflection have capture
>> modes and scripting.
>
> And horrible terminal emulation... :-)
>
>      Johnny
>