I guess I know that the MBM> prompt is some hardware level management tool,
and I know that you about have to stand on your head to get into it.

The problem is, I have a serious need to get into the system console and
another system administrator left this blasted thing running. How do I
get out of it??

--
George Cornelius cornelius A T eisner D O T decus D O T org

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From my console system:

10:59:55 MBM>
10:59:55 MBM> help
10:59:57 NAME
10:59:57 help
10:59:57 FUNCTION
10:59:57 Display information about CLI commands.
10:59:57 SYNOPSIS
10:59:57 help [, *]
10:59:57 Command synopsis conventions:
10:59:57 Implies a placeholder for user specified item.
10:59:57 ... Implies an item or list of items.
10:59:57 [] Implies optional keyword or item.
10:59:57 {a,b,c} Implies any one of a, b, c.
10:59:57 {a|b|c} Implies any combination of a, b, c.
10:59:57
10:59:57 The following help topics are available:
10:59:57
10:59:57 assign component assign memory bootline build fru
10:59:57 clear clear display clear error clear log
10:59:57 clear port clear srmenv config cables connect
10:59:58 create partition d delete partition deposit
10:59:58 disable test e el enable tes
10:59:58 examine halt in halt out hangup
10:59:58 help locate logout modify par
10:59:58 power off power on reset save parti
10:59:58 set set escape set membership set sys_se
10:59:58 set time show show cables show duo
10:59:58 show error show fru show grid show log
10:59:58 show membership show memory show network show parti
10:59:58 show power show system show sys_serial_num show time
10:59:58 show version telnet test test led
10:59:58 update uptime
10:59:59 MBM>
11:00:00 MBM>
11:00:01 MBM>
11:00:01 MBM> logout
11:00:12 MBM>
11:00:13 MBM>
11:00:13 MBM>

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In article <1otP1vNyPmKg@eisner.encompasserve.org>, BEGINcornelius@decuserve.orgEND (George Cornelius) writes:
> I guess I know that the MBM> prompt is some hardware level management tool,
> and I know that you about have to stand on your head to get into it.
>
> The problem is, I have a serious need to get into the system console and
> another system administrator left this blasted thing running. How do I
> get out of it??


To answer my own question:

I don't _want_ to get out of it. It apparently _is_ the console
subsystem on my ES47.

I typed connect and wound up on the VMS console.

Of course, I lost two days' of console messages, but what the heck...

Nobody should even need console messages these days, right?

--
George Cornelius cornelius A T eisner D O T decus D O T org

George Cornelius wrote:
> In article <1otP1vNyPmKg@eisner.encompasserve.org>, BEGINcornelius@decuserve.orgEND (George Cornelius) writes:
>> I guess I know that the MBM> prompt is some hardware level management tool,
>> and I know that you about have to stand on your head to get into it.
>>
>> The problem is, I have a serious need to get into the system console and
>> another system administrator left this blasted thing running. How do I
>> get out of it??
>
>
> To answer my own question:
>
> I don't _want_ to get out of it. It apparently _is_ the console
> subsystem on my ES47.
>
> I typed connect and wound up on the VMS console.
>
> Of course, I lost two days' of console messages, but what the heck...
>
> Nobody should even need console messages these days, right?
>

If nobody has fixed the tendency I noticed years ago, to issue a console
message every sixty seconds to tell you that the printer is off line,
you probably have not missed much!

"George Cornelius" wrote in message
news:yMhGb59j5LCF@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <1otP1vNyPmKg@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> BEGINcornelius@decuserve.orgEND (George Cornelius) writes:
>> I guess I know that the MBM> prompt is some hardware level management
>> tool,
>> and I know that you about have to stand on your head to get into it.
>>
>> The problem is, I have a serious need to get into the system console and
>> another system administrator left this blasted thing running. How do I
>> get out of it??
>
>
> To answer my own question:
>
> I don't _want_ to get out of it. It apparently _is_ the console
> subsystem on my ES47.
>
> I typed connect and wound up on the VMS console.
>
> Of course, I lost two days' of console messages, but what the heck...
>
> Nobody should even need console messages these days, right?
>
> --
> George Cornelius cornelius A T eisner D O T decus D O T org

Setting SRM_AUTO_CONNECT to ON should automatically connect you to the VMS
console on boot once the diagnostics are finished.

-Jeff

In article , "Richard B. Gilbert" writes:
> George Cornelius wrote:

>> Nobody should even need console messages these days, right?

> If nobody has fixed the tendency I noticed years ago, to issue a console
> message every sixty seconds to tell you that the printer is off line,
> you probably have not missed much!

We still get some of those - from the telnet symbiont - not to mention
hundreds of telnet login/logout messages.

But in this case, we missed an entire reboot sequence, when the system
hung for some unknown reason in a shadow set mount and my coworker
decided to abort the boot that was underway rather than keep fighting
with it.

It would have been worthwhile to have the messages, since a VMS license
issue cropped up today and I needed to know why one particular license,
OPENVMS-ALPHA-USER, did not load.

And without a user level license you can only log in at the console.

You get the picture.

Oh well, at least I had SYSMAN.

--
George Cornelius cornelius A T eisner D O T decus D O T org

Jeff Goodwin wrote:
>
> "George Cornelius" wrote in message
> news:yMhGb59j5LCF@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> > In article <1otP1vNyPmKg@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> > BEGINcornelius@decuserve.orgEND (George Cornelius) writes:
> >> I guess I know that the MBM> prompt is some hardware level management
> >> tool,
> >> and I know that you about have to stand on your head to get into it.
> >>
> >> The problem is, I have a serious need to get into the system console and
> >> another system administrator left this blasted thing running. How do I
> >> get out of it??
> >
> >
> > To answer my own question:
> >
> > I don't _want_ to get out of it. It apparently _is_ the console
> > subsystem on my ES47.
> >
> > I typed connect and wound up on the VMS console.
> >
> > Of course, I lost two days' of console messages, but what the heck...
> >
> > Nobody should even need console messages these days, right?
> >
> > --
> > George Cornelius cornelius A T eisner D O T decus D O T org
>
> Setting SRM_AUTO_CONNECT to ON should automatically connect you to the VMS
> console on boot once the diagnostics are finished.

Not sure I'd want to recommend that, though.

On my primary site (GS1280s), Oracle spits out so many spurious
messages, that I've found it useful to leave the MBM on the serial port,
and then Telnet into the thing again and CONNECT to the SRM console from
there.

Before I did that, we were getting hundreds of device timeouts a day on
the serial console port (OPA0 because 9600 baud just isn't fast enough
to keep up with all the stuff that Oracle spits out via OPCOM, on top of
all the other messages.

David J Dachtera
(formerly dba) DJE Systems