I've got a network management applicatoin that has the ability to send a text message in the event of certain failures (i.e. the Internet connection goes down.)
I'm trying to set the ESX VM to physically map to a port on one of my clustered ESX hosts. I have two Dell 2950 servers in an HA cluster.
For testing purposes, the modem is plugged into my esx1 box with a standard 9pin to 25pin serial cable. I have verified that the VM is running on that host. I added a serial port to the VM and mapped it to /dev/ttyS0.
It seems to me this should work. However, Windows Server 2003 will not recognize a modem no matter which com port I select in the OS (COM1, COM2) or which one is mapped (/dev/ttyS0 , /dev/ttyS1)
Am I missing something here?