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Using Console Manager From the C3 Interface › Writing Console Activity Output to a File, Printer or Terminal

Writing Console Activity Output to a File, Printer or Terminal

To output live console data to a printer or terminal connected to an asynchronous device, or to a file

  1. Pull down the Commands menu and choose the Console Manager item. The Console Manager menu is displayed.
  2. Choose the Watch... submenu item then select Start... on the Watch menu. The Watch dialog box is displayed (see the figure later in this section).
  3. Select the systems to watch.

    If you want to watch a subset of systems, then make sure the Select All Systems option is deselected, and click the systems you want to watch from the list available.

    If you want to watch all systems, select the Select All Systems option.

  4. Select the destination to which the watch output is to be sent:

If you want to output to a...

Then...

File

Do the following:

 

a.

Select the Output to File: option.

 

b.

Enter the file name in the Output Filename field.

Port or terminal device

Do the following:

 

a.

Select the Output to Port: option.

 

b.

Enter the port name or terminal device in the Port Name field.

 

c.

Select the appropriate Port Speed.

 

d.

Select the appropriate Port parity.

 

e.

Select or deselect the 8-bit ASCII option.

  1. Select the Column Width required for the watch output (80 or 132 columns).
  2. Click OK.

This invokes the watch interface.

To cancel this operation, choose the Stop submenu item from the Watch... submenu on the Console Manager menu.

If you start a watch for a system that is currently being archived, then there will be no output from the system until the archive finishes. When the archive finishes, the following message is displayed:

Archive completed on system-name - Watch output resuming.

If an archive is started for a system that is currently being watched, then the watch output is suspended while the archive is in progress, and the following messages are displayed:

Archive started on system-name - Watch output suspended.
Archive completed on system-name - Watch output resuming.