CentOS - Feb 2008 - CentOS serial questions (Hyperterminal equiv and connecting to server via Hyperterminal)

I have two serial-related questions

(1) What is the CentOS (or *nix) equivalent of Hyperterminal in Windows?
Sometimes I'm on a CentOS box and need to, say, console into a Cisco or
something.

and

(2) I have a CentOS server that I may need to transport somewhere and will
most likely *not* want to carry around the monitor. Where should I look in
connecting to my server via a serial connection?

(I'm more on the network end of things, and am hoping for a nudge in the
right direction on these two questions)
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Rogelio wrote:
> I have two serial-related questions
>
> (1) What is the CentOS (or *nix) equivalent of Hyperterminal in Windows?
> Sometimes I'm on a CentOS box and need to, say, console into a Cisco or
> something.
I've always used minicom, and I believe the kermit program will work
too.
> (2) I have a CentOS server that I may need to transport somewhere and will
> most likely *not* want to carry around the monitor. Where should I look in
> connecting to my server via a serial connection?
If your asking how to configure a serial console take a peek at this:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/

If your asking what you can hook your serial console up to, such
as a terminal server, I've had good luck with Cyclades terminal
servers(since bought by Advocent so not sure how they are today)

If your asking something else, your question didn't make sense to
me try to re-phrase it.

nate

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 08:36 -0800, Rogelio wrote:
> I have two serial-related questions
>  
> (1) What is the CentOS (or *nix) equivalent of Hyperterminal in
> Windows? Sometimes I'm on a CentOS box and need to, say, console into
> a Cisco or something.
minicom or kermit.
> and
>  
> (2) I have a CentOS server that I may need to transport somewhere and
> will most likely *not* want to carry around the monitor. Where should
> I look in connecting to my server via a serial connection?
If you're looking for a console server, opengear sells excellent and
relatively inexpensive stuff.  Also, cyclades, lantronix, perle, and
others.

If you just want a box to configure your server onsite, use a laptop
with a null modem cable and a terminal emulator installed.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Rogelio <scubacuda at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have two serial-related questions
>
> (1) What is the CentOS (or *nix) equivalent of Hyperterminal in Windows?
> Sometimes I'm on a CentOS box and need to, say, console into a Cisco or
> something.
Besides minicom there is also a GUI terminal app called gtkterm.
> (2) I have a CentOS server that I may need to transport somewhere and will
> most likely *not* want to carry around the monitor. Where should I look in
> connecting to my server via a serial connection?
>
> (I'm more on the network end of things, and am hoping for a nudge in
the
> right direction on these two questions)
You basicaly have 2 options. If the server has a normal standard
serial port you can setup a tty on that serial port. Once the machines
has booted then you can login on the serial port.

If the server has any remote management features then you probably
will have things like console redirection, BMC/IPMI, remote console,
... but they are platform specific so look at the manual for that
server and see what is available. They usualy do provde a way to
redirect almost all output to a serial port.

Regards,
Tim

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