Re: Capturing console activity

On 4/28/06, Wilm Boerhout <w4OLD.boerhout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
glen.thompson@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 28-4-2006 19:45...
> System: OpenVMS 7.2 on a Vaxstation 4000
>
> Our system console is a Decwriter printing terminal because the log was
> required many years ago by our internal audit department. We'd like to
> get rid of the Decwriter and replace it with one of our spare VTs. Is
> there anyway to automatically capture all the activity on the system
> console? I'd like an electronic version of what is currently on paper,
> including both operator input and output displayed.

Would the auditing dept. settle for this:

Connect a PC to the console through a serial cable (COM port); start up
a terminal emulator that allows session logging to a file.

Several Terminal Emulators will do this, among them the good old
Pathworks VT320 TE.

/Wilm


You'll also have the added benefit of not having your system hang when
the DECwriter jams or runs out of paper during a weekend.

:-)

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