[Info-vax] Terminal server replacement

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John H. Reinhardt wrote 2013-02-07 09:57:

>
> 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
>

Do you absolutely need LAT?
There are a number of Lantronix ETS16P on eBay right now.
Maybe they actualy has LAT, I havn't checked...

And besides, you can get 16 ports with 2 8-port servers also. :-)