Re: Ops Con Direct Attach LAN - sometimes you get lucky.

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff, you can run the cables to have the other pc act as the console but you
can only have 1 active at one time.  You might want to check your SST
settings to see if you have it setup where that you can take over the
console from someone else who has it.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> As I've mentioned before, I've been planning to switch from Ops Con direct
> to Ops Con LAN.
>
> Today My PC (ops con direct) was low on virtual memory so I rebooted it.
> After that, ops con would not connect and I couldn't figure out why, so I
> opened a PMR.
>
> When "Ed" called me from Rochester I told him what was wrong, my plan to
> soon change to ops con LAN, and that I had poked around in STRSST for that
> purpose.  But was pretty sure I hadn't mucked anything up.  He asked me if
> I
> had the cables I needed for ops con LAN and knew what I wanted
> network-wise.  I said yes.  He then suggested that he walk me through the
> whole changeover to ops con LAN as that could be done about as quickly as
> troubleshooting ops con direct.  I said "Doesn't that require an IPL?"  His
> response was "Not the way I'm able to do it!"
>
> To make a long story short we enabled the T5 port, I installed the ethernet
> switch, ran cables, and viola, I'm on ops con LAN.
>
> This afternoon I'll run another cable to another office PC and I'll have a
> 2nd PC that can be the console.  With 2 NIC cards in each PC, the console
> stuff is on a completely different network as well.  Thanks to Pete
> Massiello for that idea many months ago.
>
> Sometimes you just get lucky.
>
>
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> www.dilgardfoods.com
>
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> company.  Unless I say so.
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