This should work: get to the command prompt, type smit swcons. From there you can redirect the console output to where ever you want. I have a 380 box that I have going to port 2 on a RAN instead of out the serial port. I think you should be able to send it wherever... For the record, this works on AIX 4.3 and 3.2, I haven't played with 5L yet, so don't know about it. Even if that doesn't work, the second line allows you to set the log file path, so even if you can't get the console output, you can check the log. Or, you could cron a script that uuencodes the gzipped log file to wherever you wanted... Granted, its not real time output. Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 x 396 952-368-3255 (fax) ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Erik V. Anderson"" <erik at andersonfam.org> To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: [TCLUG] General UNIX remote access question > Our company has a rather large AIX box/ESS system which is going to be moved > off-site to a hosting company down in Omaha...remote access is normally not a > problem when the system is running well. However, if the need ever comes up to > reboot the server, it is necessary to have a "local" terminal to see the boot > messages. At the present time, this is not a problem - we can just sit down at > the console, but obviously when it's moved down to Omaha, this is not an option. > > Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this remotely? I've heard some random > info about using the ASYNC port on the router to plug into the serial port of > the AIX box...is this the only way to accomplish what we need to do, or are > there some other suggestions. >