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Hi to all,
has the package a built in solution to send character (and to receive replies) on serial port like the windows version Eventreporter ? Acts it like an heartbeat ?
Thank you for yours replies

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

Sorry for the late reply - I had some trouble with the new forum software.

You can send a message to a user tty (by using /dev/tty...), but there is no additional support for sending characters to serial ports. There is no functionality to receive from serial ports. This is also not on the todo list as there are many other things, in much greater demand, already on the list. If you absolutely need it, you may consider funding the development of such a feature: http://www.adiscon.com/Common/en/Products/techsup.php

For the heartbeat, I think the solution is the immark module. It generates -- MARK -- messages, originally thought of being written to a file. However, I don't see any reason why the should not be sent to a remote host. So I would go and have a look into that module.

I hope this answers your questions, if not, keep posting

Rainer