Re: TTY Remote reboot

From: Kumar, Praveen (cahoot) (Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 10:34:30 EDT


Sometimes when we have experienced system Hang situations, we have tried
connect a laptop to the system using the serial port, and then use the Hyper
terminal to connect to the machine. I feel this is the same what you were
trying to convey. Correct me if i am wrong.

Thanx & Regards
Praveen.K

 -----Original Message-----
From: Walter Lipp [mailto:wlipp@US.IBM.COM]
Sent: 04 May 2004 15:28
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: TTY Remote reboot

 The S1 serial port must be available to AIX and have a modem attached to
use the remote reboot. One could
also have a direct serial connection from another system and use an
application like cu to connect to the serial port.

Regards,
  Walter Lipp

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        "Kumar, Praveen (cahoot)" <Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM>
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Lipp,
          Thanx for the info, as per your info it sounds some thing similar
to the one i have seen on True64 unix. Anyway, you said that the serial port
has to assigned to AIX, what do you mean by this, do you mean to say that
the serial port has to be configured (if that is so) where will the other
end of the serial port connected to??

May be i am not getting the point properly.

TIA
Praveen.K
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Lipp [mailto:wlipp@US.IBM.COM]
Sent: 04 May 2004 14:19
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: TTY Remote reboot

Remote reboot can be useful if you are managing systems remotely. If AIX ,
is no longer responding, one could dial in and cause
the O.S. to reboot. Since the serial port runs at the highest system
interrupt, the chances that the serial driver will get scheduled is
pretty good. This function is only useful on stand alone systems that have
the serial port assigned to AIX. HMC managed systems
can reset partitions without enabling this function.

Regards,
 Walter Lipp

        "Kumar, Praveen (cahoot)" <Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM>
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Hi,
   I was going through one of the docs which said "TTY Remote reboot" but
i could not understand the purpose of this. Is this similar to the facility
which i have seen in True64 unix, which has network port kind of
thing(sorry i am not sure with this) from where you can connect to the
system bios and handle in case of system hang etc..

Any light in this aspect...

TIA
Praveen.K

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