Conference csc32::consolemanager

99.0. "Sun/HP/IBM connection with CM1.1 on OSF/1" by KETJE::SYBERTZ (Marc Sybertz@BRO - 856/7572) Fri Oct 08 1993 18:45

Hi,

I'm not familiar with lat, terminal cables, HP/IBM/Sun console ports, ...

However, I had to find out how to solve this kind of problem for the Belgian
uniforum.

Now that it works, I would like to share with you what I found. (btw, it's a
also a good way for me to retrieve the info when I will need it in the future ;-)

The HP in my environment is the only machine which succeed to redirect the
console to a serial port and also started its graphical user interface on the
graphical screen. At this time, I've still problem with the SUN. (IBM had no
graphical screen).

I suggest CM engineering to keep trace of all the infos we can have about these
problems and to create a little un-official internal document that can be used
afterwards.

Hope the following will help,
Marc.

**** Hardware + Soft

DEC OSF/1 3000/500	OSF/1 V1.3	Console Manager FT 1.1

HP 9000/715		HP-UX A.09.01	(With graphical screen)
IBM RS6000		AIX V3 R2	(Without graphical screen)
SUN IPX			SunOS V4.1.3	(With Graphical screen)

DECserver 90M

**** Cables :

From TS90M	BN24H03X (Digital)

HP	BN24H03X <> HB8575-B (Digital : 9 female) 
		    (**** I had to use a crossed exchanger, so that it's 
			  beter to use the HB8575-? which should be crossed)

IBM	BN24H03X <> H8571-A (Digital : 32 pins female)
	H8571-A  <> 00G0943 (IBM : 32 male <> 10 female)

Sun	BN24H03X <> H8571-E (Digital : 32 pins female)
	H8571-E	 <> 530-1662-01 REV 56 (Sun : 32 female <> 8 male)

Vt340	BN24H03X is enough

**** Soft changes

HP :	- Rlogin on the hp and change the /etc/gettydefs file so that the
	  '9600' entry equals the console one. (otherwise, CM will not be able
	  to read/trap console messages).

	- At the boot system management prompt, enter the following :

	  path console rs232_a.9600.8.none

	  then power off the machine and restart

IBM :	- Nothing to do because in my case it was a VT console

Sun :	- We succeed to put the console on the serial line but failed to start
	  an openwin session on the graphical screen !

	- To put a console on the serial line without use of graphical screen,
	  do ;

		# eeprom output_device=ttya
		# eeprom input_device=ttya
		# eeprom ttya_mode=9600,8,n,1

		power off the machine and reboot

	 (We tried also to put a symbolic link between /dev/console to /dev/ttya
	  but if failed)

	I will try to meet my ex-colleagues of Sun during the fair and arrange
	this problem.

**** On the terminal server

All the ports have been put with :

	Access : remote
	Character size : 8
	Parity : none




	

Marc,
      many thanks for this information. We shall ceertainly try to keep a
repositry of such information as one of our greatest problems is understanding
the specific requirements of other system platforms with CM. Keep up the good
work.

Cheers Simon.....

After discussing with some SUN engineers, it seems not to be possible to
redirect the console to a ttya while continuing to work with the graphical
display ...

I will post the question in the internet news sun conference and hope I will
receive an official answer soon. Will let you know.

Marc.