topic Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker? in Operating System - HP-UX

AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Daniel King_1 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:20:30 GMT

Is there something like the old AIX portmir available in HP-UX? You know, a tty listener? Something like VNC or Remote Desktop is for Windows, but for terminals?

Scenario:

User calls, "I can't do procedure x. My screen has a 20-digit error code on it, and a bunch of other messages. I don't have access to e-mail. Can you help?"

I [would like to] say, "Sure, I need to see what you see. Let me take over your screen."

I understand that Powerbroker has something of that nature, and there is something called "Peek" that I've read about before.

Is there any such thing native to HP-UX?

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

IT_2007 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:40:40 GMT

If you want to see his screen he can export DISPLAY to your host and then he can invoke script to execute but output comes to your screen. Is this you want it?

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Daniel King_1 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:54:10 GMT

Almost I'm not necessarily in X ...

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

spex — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:25:19 GMT

Hi,

GNU Screen will let you do this. After installing Screen, add a line to each user's .profile to start Screen and a virtual terminal. Configure permissions to allow you to connect. Then, to attach to a virtual terminal:

# screen -x

For more info:

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

PCS

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Daniel King_1 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:33:54 GMT

Good, screen is good, are there others?

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Daniel King_1 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:47:42 GMT

Screen is actually much better than I'd thought.

Reply and I'll signify with appropriate points ...

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:00:57 GMT

The best free utility is probably screen. There is a commercial product called DoubleVision that has been around for a very long time that is quite good.

http://www.tridia.com/products/dv.html

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

spex — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:11:41 GMT

Hi,

The Wikipedia entry for 'Screen' lists similar programs (the following taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen):

Other text-mode multiplexers exist with similar functionality. These include:

* dtach â a minimalist implementation of a subset of Screen's features
* Text windows (Twin) â a textmode windowing environment
* splitvt â split terminal utility

PCS

Re: AIX portmir? Peek? Powerbroker?

A. Daniel King_1 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:50 GMT

Thanks all!