If the PCs still use the serial connection to HP than you shouldn't have any
problem
since they would still utilize the nailed DTC ports. Otherwise, you could write
a Reflection
script that would attempt to logon to HP every 10 minutes or so, until it
succeeded.

Olek Kuperberg
Yale-New Haven Hospital


Richard Lavery wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I'm new to this news group. I have a little problem. I work in a hospital
> and had many nailed devices that I would start from a job after the backup
> to advise the wards that the system was up and available using STARTSESS. As
> we have started to move to PC's I have supposedly lost this ability as per
> HP. Is there anybody out there that knows of a similar routine to perform a
> STARTSESS in the virtual world. These PC's are always on and using
> Reflections 5.0 to 7.0.
>
> Thanking you in advance.
> Richard Lavery
> Senior Network Specialist
> Montreal Children's Hospital