Serial admin console program

[Alan Johnson]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Clarify "config utility".  minicom setup?  Something else?


Sorry: the device's setup utility.


>   Since you seem to be avoiding saying what your "device" actually is,
> and saying "device" over and over again is going to get confusing, I'm
> going to suppose your device is a "Gonkulator", or "Gonk" for short.
>

Sorry, I was being vague to keep from muddying the water, but it turns out
that the servers are ultimately relevant!  To be fair, "Gonk" is as vague as
"device" but also adds a pinch of obfuscation. ;-)   For the record, the
device is a Coyote Point E350si Equalizer and the servers are HP Proliant
300 series servers.  Turns out, there is a known problem with serial ports
on HP servers with ILO that is causing all my problems:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=408482&prodTypeId=15351&objectID=c01187465

Of course, early on, I though it might be a bad serial port, and moved the
connection to a different machine, but they were all HPs with ILO.  I
figured I just had to be doing something wrong.  I am confident that I can
get it working again by having the serial connection moved to a non-HP.
Some day, I'll turn off the serial console ILO access on all those HPs, as
described in that link, but I'm not going to reboot the machines just for
that.

Anyway, thanks to all for all the suggestions and info.  Someday I might try
the screen thing and the telnet mapping, and I'll let you all know how it
goes if I do, but for now,  ta-tah!

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Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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