Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-12 Thread John Summerfield
Scott Rohling wrote: Hmmm.. maybe more like announcing your wife just stopped beating you? ;-) Scott Good news, whichever way you look at in. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: -snip- We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released e

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmmm.. maybe more like announcing your wife just stopped beating you? ;-) Scott On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: > -snip- > > We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released earlier. for once, it's > > Novell that needs to catch up

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: -snip- > We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released earlier. for once, it's > Novell that needs to catch up ;) Hopefully you realize that statement is very similar to announcing you've just stopped beating your wife. :) Mark Post

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Shawn Wells
Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, Thanks for all the replies ... I had forgotten about the terminal server paper. That looks like a good approach as it is Linux-centric (not that the z/VM-centric solutions aren't good too). It's also good to hear that the next SLES release will be picking that

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Rick, Thanks for the continued discussion. You write: > there are two "console server" concepts ... LOG servers and > collection of virtual console traffic, and then also CONTROL > servers (terminal servers) where you get a command shell > without the 3215 pain. So let's think about this. Why do

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-01 Thread Richard Troth
But ... just to be clear, Mike ... there are two "console server" concepts in this thread. What has been discussed is LOG servers and collection of virtual console traffic, and then also CONTROL servers (terminal servers) where you get a command shell without the 3215 pain. Regarding log servers,

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-01 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi list, Thanks for all the replies ... I had forgotten about the terminal server paper. That looks like a good approach as it is Linux-centric (not that the z/VM-centric solutions aren't good too). It's also good to hear that the next SLES release will be picking that up from s390 tools. I'm g

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Clovis Pereira
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Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Scott Rohling
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Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Clovis Pereira
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Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/30/2009 at 10:35 AM, David Boyes wrote: -snip- > This should be a high > priority for the distributors to implement in the next go-round. It will be included in SLES10 SP3, and SLES11 SP1. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Yep, I use the PROP method also. I have PROP log to a SFS directory, so I don't have to reaccess the minidisk when viewing the file. Then I have an exec "HCF" which browses the console file (without locking it), also with a xedit profile to specify the columns I wish to view (on my MOD 5 sessi

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 09/30/2009 at 10:11 EDT, Michael MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/i...@ibmus wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone ever tried to log the 3270 Linux consoles to a central server? > I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/ > "Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread David Boyes
On 9/30/09 10:30 AM, "Sterling James" wrote: >> I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/ >> "Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs all >> data to a central host." > > I can not speak to your "Conserver" reference, but I have done some > testing of the z/VM I

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread David Boyes
On 9/30/09 10:05 AM, "Michael MacIsaac" wrote: > Has anyone ever tried to log the 3270 Linux consoles to a central server? Built into VM. Spool the consoles of the Linux guests to a machine running PROP (preferably NOT OPERATOR, to keep the operator console from flooding and to allow the userid

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Sterling James
>I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/ > "Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs all >data to a central host." I can not speak to your "Conserver" reference, but I have done some testing of the z/VM IUCV terminal applications from the os390-tools 1.8.1 using

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Stewart Thomas J
al Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:05 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Has anyone looked into a "console server" Hello list, Has anyone ever tried to log the 3270 Linux consoles to

Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-09-30 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello list, Has anyone ever tried to log the 3270 Linux consoles to a central server? I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/ "Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs all data to a central host." It would be nice to rarely need 3270 sessions, but also to be a