Conference csc32::consolemanager

1177.0. "Connecting systems to more than one station.." by 42046::HANCOCKM (Use what you (used to) sell) Wed Jan 31 1996 08:56

	Hi,
		does anyone know of,or have experience with the managing
	of VAXes (6000) and HSC/HSJ's from two places at once.ie,you take
	the serial output from the console of your target system(s) and 
	feed it to several different places.In this case,it is a large
	banking cust who want to be able to control their systems from:-

	1.	VCS/PCM stations
	2.	A MAXm (3com) LAN Network (which does an identical job to
		VCS/PCM anyway)
	3.	A third (monitor-only) connection to the MAXm

	Currently they take the OPA0 output and feed it to a black-box
	line splitter,and feed in to the decserver port,and into the
	MAXm servers.This is not ideal,as the box is passive,and offers
	no flow-control/contention at all,not to mention whether a 6000
	console port is capable of sustaining 3 X RS232 "loads"

	OPA0:                               +-------+
	  |                                 |       |      +- DECserver
	  +---------------------------------| master|      |  PCM/VCS
                                            |       |      |
                                            | slave1|------+
                                            |       |
					    | slave2|---------+ MAXm server
					    |       |           Management
					    | slave2|-------+   Port
					    |       |       |
				            +-------+       |
							    +-+ MAXm server
								Monitor 
								Port


	I guess the situation could arise equally if you wanted to manage
	a system from two different VCS/PCM stations...
	If you have this kind of requirement or implementation on one of
	your sites,please let me know...

				Cheers Mick  MCS South UK