HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Consoles

You have a choice concerning the type of console to use with your HP system. Although the console hardware varies among different HP system models, there are usually the following ports available:

Local Console	The local console port is a serial port to which you would connect a terminal, or use a terminal emulator, to get direct console access. This is usually the default port to which console messages are sent.
Remote Console	This port is used for a modem connection to the console.
LAN Console	This console port allows a console connection using a LAN. The networking stack is implemented in firmware on the GSP. At the time of this writing this is a 10Base-TX connection and not a 100 MBit connection. The functionality of accessing the console ...