Rebooting using telnet from a VMS box

[Willem Grooters]

No matter what software is used: When rebooting, you will loose connection. You will be able to initiate a reboot, if the software on the other side allows it (since theer are connections opened) it will shutdown - but when startup fails for some reason, you will need to have another way of finding out why it failed.

Something to take into account ;-)

[Sebastian Bazley]

If the remote server console can be connected to a Terminal server (DECserver!) or similar, then the connection from the VMS server can be maintained over a reboot.

Equally, if the remote server has some kind of console server software (e.g. like the new Integrity boxes I believe), it may be possible to maintain the connection over a reboot.

[Volker Halle]

Please have a look at the following thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1036086

It provides as link to the non-interactive TELNET client I've mentionend earlier.

Volker.