Re: (PM) PM Console & IRX

John Nowack (john@tremont.dpc.net)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:28:00 -0500

>> >There is one thing that Amber can't do: Run on an ASCII terminal telnetted
>> >back to your host from a remote POP. Something I have had to more than
>> >one time.
> [ snip ]
>> >I wish Lucent would reconsider this. There is a *lot* to be said for text-
>> >mode tools.
>
>Other than saving/restoring PM configurations, what can't be done through a
>good old telnet session? Anyway, I'm glad Lucent isn't forgetting about
>command line users. It's an important thing.
Since this was my comment, I assume the question was directed to me.

I work almost exclusivly from the command line. I *do* like Amber, but for
me its use is limited to its monitoring functions. It's just too fast to
type "set."

What I was mostly referring to here was recovering a dead box after I had
driven 20 miles to a remote POP without having to configure network cards
in a laptop so I could attach to a LAN and run Amber. I keep an ASCII
terminal on the console port of the cisco where I can telnet back to the
UNIX host in the office and run pminstall. Easy, clean, can be done from
literally anything from a PC on a serial cable to some palmtop thingy (I
guess -- do they have serial ports? :) ).

John

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