[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

Right now, I am using VT320s as consoles.  Work fine.  However, in some 
cases it might be convenient to have a console from a DECterm on another 
machine (outside the cluster).  Is something like this possible?

Presumably, I would have to connect the console port via a serial line
to a serial port on the "console machine", but---assuming it is
possible---what else needs to be done?  (I've never used it, but it 
seems that SET HOST/DTE could be used for such a connection to LOG IN on 
another machine, but I don't want to log in---I want to get to the 
console.)

If it can be done, can it be done without serial lines?  Can it be done 
so that I can connect to several consoles on several nodes from 
different DECterms running on my "console machine"?

A terminal server lets me connect several serial lines to one device
(the terminal server) which is on the network and so from it I can get 
to any machine on the network.  Something like this but in reverse would 
fit the bill: connect the console ports on all the machines to this 
device via serial lines, and connect to the device over the network and 
somehow select a console connection.