[Info-vax] Terminal server replacement

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John H. Reinhardt wrote 2013-02-07 13:25:
> On Thursday, February 7, 2013 4:24:43 AM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> John H. Reinhardt wrote 2013-02-07 09:57:
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>>> Well..  16 ports is probably overkill.  I want it mostly for monitoring
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>>> consoles.  I have 3 Alphas, 2 IA64's, a MSA1500cs, SAN switch,
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>>> Infoserver and 3 APC SU3000RM3 UPS's.  The UPS's I want to monitor the
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>>> serial ports with an app so I can tell the systems to shutdown when the
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>>> backup kicks in.  I could probably get away with an 8-port and just swap
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>>> the serial lines to the console ports as needed, but if I can get ports
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>>> cheaply enough then why not.
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>>> John H. Reinhardt
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>> Do you absolutely need LAT?
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>> There are a number of Lantronix ETS16P on eBay right now.
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>> Maybe they actualy has LAT, I havn't checked...
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> I've got several of those on my watch list. I was hoping someone might have experience with that brand and chime in.  LAT probably isn't a necessity.  Everything I have can do IP.  LAT is just "traditional"
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>> And besides, you can get 16 ports with 2 8-port servers also. :-)
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> But I only have a 1U slot in my rack space where the DECserver 900TM is/was. :-P
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One nice thing with the older Lantronix boxes is that they uses the
same CLI interface as the well known DECservers did. That is,
SET/DEF/SHOW and so on with the same format for the output.

Newer (maybe not all) Lantronix servers has a lousy telnet interface
and you are supposed to use the web interface...