Opening And Closing An Ssh Session To A Serial Port; Accessing Serial Ports Using "Ts_Menu; Calling Ts_Menu Without Arguments - Cyclades AlterPath ACS Command Reference Manual

Opening and closing an SSH session to a serial port

To open a SSH session to a serial port or the next free serial port from a pool, issue the
command:
# ssh -l <Username>:<Server> <CAS hostname>
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<Username> is the user configured to access that serial port. It is present either in
the local CAS database or in a Radius/Tacacs/LDAP/Kerberos, etc database.
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<Server> can be just the TCP port number assigned for that serial port (7001, 7002,
etc), pool of ports (3000, etc), the alias for the server connected to that serial port
or the alias of a pool of ports.
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<CAS hostname> is the hostname configured in the workstation where the SSH
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.
To close the SSH session, press the hotkey defined for the SSH client followed by a "."
The default is "~."
Make sure you enter the escape character followed by a "." at the beginning of a line to close
the SSH session.

Accessing Serial Ports using "ts_menu"

ts_menu is an application to facilitate connection to the serial ports. The following are
the methods of executing the ts_menu command.
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Calling ts_menu without specifying any arguments.
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Calling ts_menu with command line arguments
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Using CLI to call ts_menu.

Calling ts_menu without arguments

To access the serial port (Telnet or SSH) using ts_menu, login to the CAS unit and, after
receiving the shell prompt, run ts_menu. The servers (aliases) or serial ports will be
shown as option to start a connection (Telnet/SSH). After typing ts_menu, you will see
something similar to the following:
Serial Console Server Connection Menu for your Master Terminal Server
1 ttyS1 2 ttyS2 3 ttyS3 4 ttyS4
5 ttyS5 6 ttyS6 7 ttyS7 8 ttyS8
Type 'q' to quit, a valid option[1-8], or anything else to refresh:
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