Digital Equipment 300 Series AXP Reference Manual page 190

Setting the Alternate Console Feature
Restart the After you reset the jumper, you must restart the system to
System redirect the console output. The system automatically displays
the
come up on the alternate console when you start it.
To Access Console output can also be accessed via the network. Thus, you
Console Output can remotely troubleshoot the system or use a remote console
via the Network when no local console is available.
Note that some console tests and commands, such as the memory
diagnostic, cause the network connection to be terminated
because the commands use the network device, or they cause a
connection timeout at the remote node. If this occurs, you will
have to turn the system off and then back on.
To access console output via the network:
Step
1
2
3
6–6
display. From here on, the system will always
show config
Action
Obtain the hardware Ethernet address of the system.
Obtain access to an operating system on the same
Ethernet segment as the DEC 3000 Model 300 Series
AXP System (the systems cannot be separated by a bridge
or router).
Set the following system parameters:
• A console password
• set mop, set trigger