Re: PMconsole for IRIX

Michael Dillon (michael@junction.net)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:47:53 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 21 Sep 1995, Doug Council wrote:

> > This is something that I hope will change VERY soon. The Indy is a far
> > superior machine to many of the supported.
>
> I have to second this motion. We strickly use SGI boxes and the lack of a
> decent admin tool for monitoring the ports (besides telnetting to the box)
> and doing basic administration is very inconvienent. For mass configuration
> changes, telnetting is great, but for just looking at the ports and doing
> single port administration, it would be nice to have some type of X-based
> tool.

There is one and it works just fine on SGI's. Just get a SUN and run
the pmconsole binary on there via X

Or else wait for the Linux pmconsole to be released (it's in beta) and
set up a cheap 486 box with Linux to run pmconsole binaries for you.

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