I setup an SSH session to the RB450 from a PC directly connected via Ethernet. I turned on logging in PuTTY. I used the RB450 to console into the RB1200. Now I sit and wait...
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Lambert" <lamb...@lambertfam.org> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:16:57 PM Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Catching a bad RB1200 On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:40:18PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > I throw out all of my obsolete PCs. ;-) Unix box with http://www.conserver.com/ and telnet/ssh connection to the 450's serial port to log everything. > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Grand Avenue Broadband" <grandav...@grandavebb.com> > To: "Mikrotik discussions" <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> > Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 10:15:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Catching a bad RB1200 > > I have no idea how I would go about doing that. I'd find it a whole > lot easier just to replace the 450 with an obsolete PC running PUTTY > on the serial channel until I captured what I needed. > > On Sep 9, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Mike Hammett <butch-mikro...@ics-il.net> > wrote: > > > I have an RB1200 that keeps crapping out. Of course the watchdog > > never trips, so there's never a supout created. > > > > I have an RB450 consoled in via serial null modem. How can I > > configure the 450 to write everything it gets over serial to a file > > so that when the RB1200 dies again, hopefully I can catch a panic > > of some kind. Unfortunately RouterOS doesn't have something like > > screen, otherwise I'd just hold it in memory until it crashed, > > reattached the screen, then view it. > > > > Also, what would I want to flag on the RB1200 for writing logs > > to disk? I know that writing to disk a lot could cause premature > > failure of the disk, but maybe I don't catch enough logging data to > > see it? -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lamb...@lambertfam.org How to be a "computer expert," http://www.xkcd.com/627/ _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20130914/5b26d515/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
