Re: (PM) Remote Console equipment

John Gonzalez/netMDC admin (ekool@ns1.netmdc.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:45:02 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jake Messinger wrote:

-| On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:
-|
-| > -| Anybody out there using remote console devices connecting to remote PMs?
-| > -| I need something that can log the serial output from my PM-3's and PM-4's
-| >
-| > what about a used pm25 and linux box?
-|
-| What would you need the linux box for? You can set up all the locations,
-| scripts, etc you need right in the pm 25 or you can simply attach to a
-| specific port via telnet to the pm 25 and manually log into the console
-| port of the connected equipment. It really is simpler than youd expect.

Yes, but what is going to LOG the connections? You need some type of
ram/buffers/hd to LOG the output of the console to. If you are monitoring
MANY boxes, and each port on the pm25 is taken, then having a seperate log
file for each port would be VERY handy.

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