How to share J6000 Console Monitor?

[Craig Anderson_1]

We have three (soon to be seven) J6000s running without a console monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It seems that it is not possible to connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse and have it be recognized without rebooting the system. Is this true? Are there any workarounds to connect them while the system is running? Each system is running HP-UX 11 and has a PCI graphics card and USB keyboard and mouse ports.

Are there any scenarios (KVM switch?, ...) that will allow us to share one monitor and PS/2 keyboard and mouse with the J6000s and our PS/2 systems (Sun Enterprise server and two NT servers)?

[Jim Turner · Accepted solution]

Hi Craig,

The KVM switch should be no problem. I use a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port (Model F1D094) to share one KB, Mouse, and CRT among the HP-UX, Linux, and Winblows boxes I have in my cube. I have a colleague with a similar setup (Entria Xterm instead of a C110) who also has no problems.

There's always a chance YMMV with the J6000's, but you should be fine.

Cheers,
Jim

[Vito Sarducci]

If you decide to connect a monitor, kb, and mouse to the system, you can try and power on the monitor and kb, and hold the Ctrl-D down and once powered up, release the Ctrl-d to see if the monitor resets itself as well as kb and mouse. This works if you have a spare monitor,kb,and mouse available for testing.

I have done this on systems with hung monitors. Unplug them all, plug them back in and do this function above to reset the tty console port sessions.

You can also try the fuser command to see what is using the console port session to make sure.
You can also take the multi-port option as mentioned above and this will work fine.

HTH,

Vito