Accessing Serial Ports; Default Configuration Parameters; Opening And Closing A Telnet Session To A Serial Port - Cyclades AlterPath ACS Command Reference Manual

Device Access

2.1 Accessing Serial Ports

There are four ways to access serial ports, depending on the protocol you configured for that
serial port: setting all.protocol to socket_server for Telnet access, setting it to socket_ssh for
SSH access, or setting it to socket_server_ssh both.
An administrator can access the serial port by statically addressing it (using TCP port
number, alias name, or IP address) or by accessing the next free serial port available from an
existent pool (by using the pool's TCP port number, alias or IP address).

Default Configuration Parameters

These are the default configuration settings:
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DHCP enabled (if there is no DHCP Server, IP for Ethernet is 192.168.160.10 with a
Netmask of 255.255.255.0)
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CAS configuration
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socket_server in all ports (access method is Telnet)
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9600 bps, 8N1
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No Authentication

Opening and closing a Telnet session to a serial port

To open a Telnet session to a serial port or the first free serial port belonging to a pool of serial
ports,
issue the command:
# telnet <CAS hostname> <TCP port number>
where
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<CAS hostname> is the hostname configured in the workstation where the Telnet client
will run (through /etc/hosts or DNS table). It can also be just the IP address of the ACS
(Ethernet's interface) configured by the user or learned from DHCP.
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<TCP port number> is the number associated to the serial port or pool of serial ports.
From factory, 7001 corresponds to serial port 1, 7002 to serial port 2 and so forth, and
3000 is a pool with all serial ports.
To close the Telnet session, just press the Telnet hotkey configured in Telnet client
application (usually it's "Ctrl]") and "q" to quit.
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