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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:CSC32::BUTTERWORTH
Created:Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1541
Total number of notes:6564

139.0. "Connection between line sensor and remote console lost error ?" by SMAC10::BARKER_E (Ummm...) Mon Nov 29 1993 21:11

    Hi,
    
    	I'm setting up a Managament system with 10 remote ULTRIX systems,
    each having their console port connected to a DECserver equivalent
    (Xyplex I think), and we're connecting to them via TELNET to each port
    on the DEcserver. So far we've connected one remote site with two
    systems, both on the same server.The connection appears to work Ok but
    then drops after 10-15 minuteson both systems at the same time.
     A critical message is transmitted on the event window, then five minutes
    later   all is OK again. Ten minutes later the process is repeated and
    goes on indefintely. 
    
    	Is this a previously seen problem ? Is it likely the network is
    involved ? if I simply Telnet to the DECserver all works fine.
    
    	Thanks for any advice/pointers,
    
    		Euan
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139.1Sounds like known featureOPG::ENTWISTLEWed Dec 01 1993 09:349
I suspect this will be the same problem as that discussed in note 88 i.e. that
your server does not support the TELNET GET STATUS option. 

Console Manager sends a get status message to the server every 10 minutes in 
an attempt to determine if it was still there. This works with DECservers -
the only ones we tested against. We will consider allowing users to disable
this test in v1.1 at the cost of not being informed if the TELNET link is lost.

Graeme
139.2Yep, Xyplex terminal servers , not DECserversSMAC10::BARKER_EUmmm...Mon Dec 06 1993 12:268
    Hi,
    
    	Thanks, you're right. It turned out the remote systems were
    actually connected using Xyplex terminal servers and they don't support
    the telnet send getstatus option. For background, is the send getstatus
    a popular feature or are we one of the only/few to implement it ?
    
    	Euan
139.3RFC vs PopularityOPG::SIMONMon Dec 06 1993 15:185
    Hi,
       im not sure how "Popular" the option is, but it isd documented in
    the RFC. I guess xyplex were trying to save code space.
    
    Cheers Simoin....
139.4Changed to LATSMAC10::BARKER_EUmmm...Mon Dec 13 1993 09:427
    Hi,
    
    	Thanks for the help. Fortunately the customer had a bridged
    WAN/X-LAN so we switched the terminal servers so they could support LAT
    as well.
    
    	Euan