RE: Need Console 101 badly

Easy to use them interchangeably.

Its really Ops Console Lan Attach and Ops Console Direct attach. Lan Attach
Console is a PC connected to an Ethernet Card on the i5, while Ops Console
is connected to the 2793 (or similar card) via a regular cable. You attach
one end of the cable to the port where you would attach the modem to on the
card, and the other end is just the 15 pin port on your PC.

I have a mix of Lan and Direct attach at customers. It's great either way,
as we can run PC Anywhere on the PC and access them remotely.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Need Console 101 badly

Quick follow up question from another "console challenged" lister:

You use OPS console and LAN console in the same paragraph, almost the
same breath. Are they the same, then?

Pete Helgren

Larry Bolhuis wrote:

...cap the marker and open the window joe..... :-)

There is a device called the 'Thin Console'. It does most of what you
describe over a simple connection to one of the i5's HMC ports. This is
Ethernet so the connection truly is very simple. The device however only
does what a Twinax tube does - 5250 emulation. So you end up not wasting
a slot for a twinax card and the required IOP and you get twinax class
simplicity and reliability. Unless it's gotten some serious upgrades,
it doesn't connect to anything else so you can't connect to it with
Telnet or a browser. It's just a terminal.

Yes OPS console is 'fat' and it has it's problems mostly the Windows PC
required to run it. However once it's running it does work pretty well.
I use LAN console almost everywhere I don't have an HMC. I often simply
use an old PC with W2K or XP. For FrankieIII it's an old thinkpad with
no display (I access it via remote desktop) You could easily use one to
access both the 270 and the i5 being the primary console for both systems.

For the cheapest HMC purchase a desktop or desk-side unit and use you
own monitor or KVM. Both are under $1900 though that still doesn't
qualify as 'cheap' It does everything I want a console to do and the
newest software version allows you to access it from a simple browser
(no more WEBSM).

So as usual you pay your money and take your choice.

- Larry