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Echola FC811 Installation & Operating Manual

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Installation & Operating Guide
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FC811/VFC811 : 8 port fiber-cut switch
Echola Systems L.L.C
1161 Ringwood Ct, Ste 100
San Jose, CA-95131
Phone: 408 321 9663
Fax: 408 321 9663
http://www.echola.com/optical

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  • Page 1 Installation & Operating Guide FC811/VFC811 : 8 port fiber-cut switch ________________________________________________________________________________ Echola Systems L.L.C 1161 Ringwood Ct, Ste 100 San Jose, CA-95131 Phone: 408 321 9663 Fax: 408 321 9663 http://www.echola.com/optical ________________________________________________________________________________...

  • Page 2: Installation

    Installation FC811 is a Linux based 8 port fiber cut switch with eight 1x1 physical layer (L1) optical switches. You can either use 8 single fibers or 4 duplex fibers (Tx/Rx combo) to simulate fiber cut scenarios. LEDs to indicate which...
  • Page 3 If you want to simulate break between both TX and RX fibers of the these devices under test (which may be the case in many scenarios) then you will have to use 2 ports of FC811, like the following Device1-TX -› {Port2B -› [FC811 SWITCH_PORT1] -› Port2A} -› Device2-RX Device1-RX ‹- {Port1B ‹- [FC811 SWITCH_PORT2] ‹- Port1A} ‹-Device2-TX...
  • Page 4 & DNS as 192.168.1. Once the IP is configured from a PC or a Laptop using Ethernet or serial port, you can then connect FC811 to your network and access it using “telnet” or “ssh”. Configuring Dynamic IP If you have a DHCP server running on your network and you may want to dynamically assign an available IP address to FC811 by using following option.
  • Page 5 To send system generated events to an external syslog server, use “–S” option of osctl. You have to specify the address of the syslog server which will receive these event logs. (Note: this option only available in software version 2.0 and above). # osctl –S 192.168.1.200 Version Info The following command shows hardware and software versions and serial number of the...

  • Page 6: Operation

    8 ports of FC811. For example: $ osctl -p 4 on switch port 4 to ON. LED on port 4 of FC811 lids when this command is issued which confirms that the port is switched ON. $ osctl -p "1 2 3" on...
  • Page 7 switch ports 1, 2 and 3 to ON. Note the double quote, without that it won’t work. $ osctl -p "1-4" off switch ports 1, 2, 3 and 4 to OFF (range 1 to 4). This comes in handy when you want to switch bunch of ports in order.

  • Page 8: Switch Status

    Switch Status Following command shows the status of a port whether it is on/off or status of ports in a pre-defined group. $ osctl -s [<port_group> | <in_port#>] For example: $ osctl -s shows all ports' & groups' status as follows. It shows first all ports and tells you which ports are part of a group.

  • Page 9: Port Group Management

    Port group Management Port group management commands provide convenience of switching bunch of ports together identified by a name. Group name can be any alpha-numeric name. Group name can not be just a number or start with a number. For example group name can not be “10” or 10gp1. 1.
  • Page 10 delete all groups in the database.

  • Page 11: Web Interface

    Web interface In order to access FC811 Web interface you will have to use its IP address in URL address bar of the web browser. The web interface is included in software version 2.2 and above. The first page you will see is the management page where you control all ports.
  • Page 13 Management page The management page for FC811 is a simple page with 8 pull down menu to choose ON or OFF state. Initially it shows the current status of ports and once you change the status to ON or OFF by clicking on corresponding pull down menu and then Update button to switch corresponding port to ON or OFF.
  • Page 14 Perl/Xml based scripts (both example scripts are given below). The tcl and expect scripting languages are easy to learn. We have given an example script written for fc811/FC811 at the end which you can modify to suit your need. There are tons of online sources for learning tcl & expect.
  • Page 15 and ‘package’ commands as mentioned in the script. All comments inside ‘#’ provide more info on what the script is doing.
  • Page 16 # Connect to the telent server using the "spawn" command. spawn telnet $hostname #spawn C:\Putty\putty.exe -telnet $hostname # Wait for a login prompt. expect -re "(Name|login|Login|Username).*:.*" { # Login prompt received. Send user name to fc811/FC811. send "$username\r" } eof { # No login prompt received. Display an error.
  • Page 17 puts "could not connect\n" # Wait for a password prompt from the Unix server. expect "Password:" { # Password prompt received. Send the password. send "$password\r" # Wait for the switch prompt. expect -re $prompt { # Issue osctl command to switch given port send "$commandcontrol\r"...
  • Page 18 # Terminate telnet send "exit\r"...
  • Page 19 Sample Perl/xml script ################################################################## ####### # Command Syntax: osctlauto.pl http://<ipaddress> <port#> <on|off> # ################################################################## ######## use LWP::UserAgent; use XML::Simple; $IPADDR = shift; $PORT = shift; $STAT = shift; # create objects $xml = new XML::Simple; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; # set status on/off $REQUEST=$IPADDR .

  • Page 20: Troubleshooting

    (-n option). Try “ping <name_server_ip>” to see if name server configured can be reached from fc811. If you don’t have dns on your network then you can just remove file “/etc/resolv.conf” and see if it works normal.

  • Page 21: Hardware Specifications

    Hardware Specifications Electrical Input Power 100-240 AC Total Power Consumption < 7 Watts Serial Port 1x RS232 Networking 1x 10/100 Ethernet Optical Specification for FC Series Connectivity 16 duplex LC connectors Data rate Any data rate - Physical Layer Switch, no limitation Multimode version: Wavelength (nm)

  • Page 22: Contact Info

    Contact Info If you have any technical questions and need help you can send email to support@echola.com or call us at 408-321-9663 ext 2. You can also download latest documents and software from our website www.echola.com/optical.

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