[Info-vax] OpenVMS Remote Management (was: Re: Most usable graphics card(s) for VMS on a DS10)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-07, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2020-10-07 17:27:27 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>
>> For those of you managing Linux and other Unix servers, how many of you 
>> go and sit at the server console to do GUI work and how many of you 
>> just run any needed X applications remotely over SSH from your normal 
>> desktop machine ?
>
> I've not used remote X for any of that, with any Unix or Linux systems 
> I've managed.
>

I sometimes run a web browser or other GUI application on the server but
route its output over SSH. Consider when you need to access some local
service, but you don't want to make it generally available on the network.

>> Are there any performance or other limitations which make this approach 
>> not practical for VMS servers ?
>
> Remote X will work, but when you're tossing around remote DECterm 
> sessions for command-line access, it becomes more of a "why bother?" 
> discussion.
>

Exactly. About the only thing people seem to use a VMS desktop for
these days is to run DECterms.

Why do you need to insert graphics cards into VMS systems for that ?

Why not just connect to the VMS machines directly via a terminal emulator
if that is all you are doing ?

What proper X applications are people running on VMS these days and
is there anything about those applications which stop their output
from simply being routed over SSH ?

Simon.

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