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brahim94_11525
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Mar 27, 2014

Question about vconsole utility

HI,   I have a questions about vconsole utility. I used this command "vconsole guest_name slot_number" to access a guest via console port (PErle appliance). And now when a closed the connection a...
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Hamish
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Mar 28, 2014

vconsole is basically telnet in disguise, so just send the telnet escape sequence (^]) and then q for quit...

 

** Of course if you're TELNET'ed into the host you're vconsoling from that won't work very well, but that should be unlikely as telnet isn't enabled by default on BigIP anyway.