“You’ll need a null modem cable. Sometimes it’s called a serial
laplink cable. It should have 9-pin female connectors on both ends
of the cable…“You’ll need another server to act as the logging machine. Any
machine will do as long as it has a serial port and won’t be
rebooted more often than the server you’re monitoring. If it runs
Linux, you will need the application minicom…”
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