The serialports file maps a host name to the Terminal Concentrator and Terminal Concentrator serial port to which the host is connected. Each line in this database specifies a serial port of the host.
Sample serialports file database entries for the Sun Enterprise 10000 are:
mercury systemserviceprocessorname 23 venus systemserviceprocessorname 23 earth systemserviceprocessorname 23 mars systemserviceprocessorname 23 |
Sample serialports file database entries for all other nodes are:
mercury planets-tc 5002 venus planets-tc 5003 earth planets-tc 5004 mars planets-tc 5005 |
The serialports file is used only by the cconsole variation of this program to determine which Terminal Concentrator and port to connect to for hosts or clusters that are specified in the command line or the Select Hosts dialog box.
In the preceding example, node mercury is connected to planets-tc Port 2, while node venus is connected to planets-tc Port 3. Port 1 is reserved for the administration of the Terminal Concentrator.
For additional information, see "Modifying the serialports File".