Re: [Vacm-general] Confused about the wiring

[Dean J. <dt...@ub...>]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:17, jeff wrote:
> I have a couple of VA boxes, a 1220 and 1221. I am renting out the 1220
> to someone for their site. They want to run windows (I know, believe me
> I tried) so I have installed w2k for them.
> 
> I suspect that I might have to power cycle this box for them so I was
> wondering if I could use these strange ports on the back of the box to
> do this. Beats having to go down to the data center.
> 
> I have read over the VACM docs and I think I can set this up, but I am
> confused about how the wiring works. Do I use straight through ethernet
> cables? Can I connect the VASNET port of the 1220 to the ICMB port of
> the 1221? If that doesn't work is there some other way that I could
> achieve my purpose?

I am not sure about the other methods, but the way I always did it was
through the EMP port, which is a serial connection. It wouldn't really
require VACM, as VACM was meant more as a manager for many boxes. I
can't recall which type of serial cable it used, but you could just hook
the serial cable from another one of your boxes to it and get to the EMP
via minicom.

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Dean Johnson <dt...@ub...>