Admintool: Serial Ports and SAF

You can configure a serial port for use with a modem or terminal on a local system by using either the Admintool: Serial Ports graphical user interface or the SAF commands described in Part 4 of this book. Sun recommends that you use the Admintool: Serial Ports graphical user interface for these tasks. Alternatively, you can use the SMC Serial Ports tool—available in the Solaris 8 Update 3 release—to configure serial ports.

Both Admintool: Serial Ports and the SMC Serial Ports tool use the pmadm command to configure the serial port software to work with terminals and modems. They provide templates for common terminal ...

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