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Advanced System Management ports on the model 8654
There are two kinds of Advanced System Management ports on the model 8654
appliance server: the Management port (Serial port A) and RS-485 ports.
Management port (Serial port A)
This port uses a standard D-shell serial-port connector, labeled A on the rear of the
appliance server. You can attach a dedicated modem to the D-shell connector on the
rear of your appliance server to communicate with the integrated Advanced System
Management processor. For more information about the serial port, see "Serial port"
on page 74.
RS-485 ports
The RS-485 ports on the rear of your appliance server enable you to connect the
Advanced System Management processors of several rack-mounted appliance
servers so that they can communicate with each other in half-duplex mode.
Keyboard connector on the model 8672
There is one keyboard connector on the rear of the model 8672 appliance server.
Note: If you attach a standard keyboard to the keyboard connector, the USB ports,
The following table and illustration shows the pin-number assignments for the
keyboard connector on the end of the cable.
Table 10. Keyboard-connector (6-pin female) pin-number assignments .
Video connector on the model 8672
The following table shows the pin-number assignments for the 15-pin analog video
connector on the rear of the model 8672 appliance server.
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and devices will be disabled during the power-on self-test (POST).
Pin
I/O
1
I/O
Data
2
N/A
Reserved
3
N/A
Ground
4
N/A
+5 V dc
5
I/O
Keyboard clock
6
N/A
Reserved
6
5
3
4
1
2
Signal
5
1
15
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