[Info-vax] Terminal server replacement

[John H. Reinhardt]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:28:11 PM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> John H. Reinhardt wrote:
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> > On Monday, February 4, 2013 6:52:39 AM UTC-5, Christoph Gartmann wrote:
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> >> Perhaps a DECserver716 from vnetek?
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> > They're a little rich for my blood.  This is a home/hobbyist installation so "cheap" is a non-trivial requirement.  I should have mentioned that in the original post.
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> > Thanks,
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> >   John H. Reinhardt
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> Now I'm interested.  Just what do you run in your home environment that 
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> would need so many terminal server ports ?
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> I'm still running a terminal server, for a serial dot matrix printer. 
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> The printer has been rarely used since I learned how to print checks on 
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> the network laser printer.

Well..  16 ports is probably overkill.  I want it mostly for monitoring consoles.  I have 3 Alphas, 2 IA64's, a MSA1500cs, SAN switch, Infoserver and 3 APC SU3000RM3 UPS's.  The UPS's I want to monitor the serial ports with an app so I can tell the systems to shutdown when the backup kicks in.  I could probably get away with an 8-port and just swap the serial lines to the console ports as needed, but if I can get ports cheaply enough then why not.

John H. Reinhardt