[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[Robin Schipper]

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply schreef:
> 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.
>  
>   
Hi Phillip,

that is just what we do.

we have several OpenVMS systems (and even Cisco switches) connected from 
the Console to a few Terminal servers, and that terminal server is 
trough LAT or TCPIP connected to our central management systems (witch 
has PCM (polycentre Console Manager) running)
on our central management system we can watch events comming by from the 
systems and we can log in to the console if we need to.

instead of PCM (witch is from CA as far as i know) you can also use 
Cockpit Manager. witch is  a HP tool