Terminal emulation for OS X Server 10.5.8?

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Terminal emulation for OS X Server 10.5.8?

We use Xsan with 2 Xservers and 2 Promise arrays. Promise tells me I need to use a terminal emulator to get information from the arrays over a seril connection. The emulator has to emulate a VT100 or ANSI terminal. Neither Promise nor Apple Support would recommend a terminal emulator.

Does anyone have experience running a terminal emulator on an Xserve running OS X Server 10.5.8? Is there one you would recommed? Not recommend?

Thanks in advance.

Chuck

Xserv (Early 2008), OS X Server, OS X Server 10.5.8

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 7:18 AM

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Mar 20, 2013 9:30 AM in response to original_macmadman

Last time I did this I used a USB to Serial adaptor on a MacBook Pro with ZTerm software.

See http://www.dalverson.com/zterm/

The XServe in theory has a built-in serial port but at the time I tried it, I could not get ZTerm to successfully communicate via it, the USB serial adaptor (this one - http://www.macwise.com/Keyspan.html ) worked fine.

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