wconsd

h1. Menu Commands

Note that it is currently planned to completely replace the menu system for the next version of wconsd, so these commands will be changing.

h2. close

close

If the serial port is current open, this command will close it and stop any serial communications.

h2. copyright

copyright

Print the copyright notice

h2. data

data 5|6|7|8

Sets the number of data bits. This command will not have any affect until the port is closed and re-opened.

h2. help

Show some quick help for the menu commands

h2. kill_conn

kill_conn Connection ID

Stop a given connection's serial communications. This will close the serial port being used by the given connection ID and thus allow someone else to open that port. This command can be used when an existing session has crashed, or if someone else has logged in and is blocking your work. Since there is no authentication, this command is obviously open to abuse.

h2. open

open [port number]

Connect or resume communications with a serial port. If no port number is specified then the current default port number is used. If an serial port is already open, this will just resume communication with that port.

h2. parity

parity no|even|odd|mark|space

Set the serial parity. This command will not have any affect until the port is closed and re-opened.

h2. port

port port number

Set serial port number. This command will not have any affect until the port is closed and re-opened.

h2. quit

quit

Exit from this session

h2. show_conn_table

show_conn_table

Show the connections table. This table is mostly used for internal debugging information, however it contains the connection ID for all the current connections, which can be used with the kill_conn command

w000c2989d2df> show_conn_table
slot state id Menu mThr Net net netTh Ser serial serialTh Echo netrx nettx

---

0 ACTIV 1 YES 1884 OK 1900 0 OK 1848 1840 YES 76 1886
1 ACTIV 2 YES 1860 OK 1872 0 -1 0 YES 14 783
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 NO 0 0

• state is ACTIV if the slot contains valid data
• id contains the connection ID for this slot
• Menu is YES if this connection is currently at the menu prompt
• Net is OK if there is a network connection for this slot and signals that the other two net columns contain valid data. In normal operations, there should never be an ACTIV slot with no Net connection
• Ser is OK if there is an open serial connection for this slot and signals that the other two ser columns contain valid data.

h2. speed

speed bits per second

Set serial port speed. This command will not have any affect until the port is closed and re-opened.

h2. status

status

Show current serial port status

w000c2989d2df> status
status:

port=1 speed=9600 data=8 parity=0 stop=0
state=open

connectionid=1 hostname=w000c2989d2df

h2. stop

stop 1|1.5|2

Set number of stop bits. This command will not have any affect until the port is closed and re-opened.