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Will conserver work for me...
I stumbled upon conserver, and before I go through the work to compile it and setup a machine for it, I was wondering if someone can confirm this for me.

Some back story...I currently have a Windows machine with ~50 serial ports on it...each of the ports connect to various devices....servers, routers, switches, etc. I wrote a small Python program (one per port) to log each of the ports to a txt file, it lets me "telnet" to the server and send/receive to a specific serial port for managing the various devices. But...I'm not a programmer and it works like crap...when I connect to a port, it pegs one of the cpus since I can't work out some of the loops.

What I'd like to do is replace my crappy software with conserver on an OpenSolaris box. Can I configure conserver to do the same thing? My ultimate goal is to be able to connect over SSH (preferably) or telnet, login, pick a port to 'connect to', and be able to control that device. (I tried conserver under Cygwin...and it LOOKED like I could do this...but I wasn't sure since I can't figure out how to access the serial ports under Cygwin...

So again...before I go through the work of building a new machine and configuring it to only find out it won't do what I want....is this doable with conserver?

Thanks!
--Brian

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Re: Will conserver work for me... [ In reply to ]
Run conserver with a multi-port serial board under UNIX not Windows and
you'll be fine.

McCann, Brian wrote:
> I stumbled upon conserver, and before I go through the work to compile it and setup a machine for it, I was wondering if someone can confirm this for me.
>
> Some back story...I currently have a Windows machine with ~50 serial ports on it...each of the ports connect to various devices....servers, routers, switches, etc. I wrote a small Python program (one per port) to log each of the ports to a txt file, it lets me "telnet" to the server and send/receive to a specific serial port for managing the various devices. But...I'm not a programmer and it works like crap...when I connect to a port, it pegs one of the cpus since I can't work out some of the loops.
>
> What I'd like to do is replace my crappy software with conserver on an OpenSolaris box. Can I configure conserver to do the same thing? My ultimate goal is to be able to connect over SSH (preferably) or telnet, login, pick a port to 'connect to', and be able to control that device. (I tried conserver under Cygwin...and it LOOKED like I could do this...but I wasn't sure since I can't figure out how to access the serial ports under Cygwin...
>
> So again...before I go through the work of building a new machine and configuring it to only find out it won't do what I want....is this doable with conserver?
>
> Thanks!
> --Brian
>
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> Brian McCann
> K12USA.com, Cool Tools for Schools
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Re: Will conserver work for me... [ In reply to ]
On Oct 29 16:19, McCann, Brian wrote:
> Some back story...I currently have a Windows machine with ~50 serial
> ports on it...each of the ports connect to various devices....servers,
> routers, switches, etc. I wrote a small Python program (one per port)
> to log each of the ports to a txt file, it lets me "telnet" to the
> server and send/receive to a specific serial port for managing the
> various devices. But...I'm not a programmer and it works like
> crap...when I connect to a port, it pegs one of the cpus since I can't
> work out some of the loops.
>
> What I'd like to do is replace my crappy software with conserver on an
> OpenSolaris box. Can I configure conserver to do the same thing? My
> ultimate goal is to be able to connect over SSH (preferably) or
> telnet, login, pick a port to 'connect to', and be able to control
> that device.

Yes, you'll be able to login to the box with ssh then run
"console <device>" to get to the device.

Nate
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