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Establishing a serial connection
Establishing a serial connection
Perform the following steps to log in to the device through the serial connection.
1.
Verify that the device has completed POST. When POST is complete, the port status and device power and status LEDs return
to a standard healthy state.
2.
Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the device and to an RS-232 serial port on the workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the serial cable and insert
the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
3.
When the terminal emulator application stops reporting information, press Enter to display the login prompt.
4.
Log in to the device as admin, using the default password: password. You are prompted to change the default password at initial
login.
5.
Configure the application as follows:
•
In a Windows environment:
Parameter
Bits per second
Databits
Parity
Stop bits
Flow control
NOTE
Flow control is not supported on the serial connection when attached to a remote terminal and must be disabled
on the customer-side remote terminal server in addition to the host-side clients.
•
In a UNIX environment using TIP, enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttyb -9600.
If ttyb is already in use, use ttya instead and enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttya -9600
Setting the device IP address
You can configure the device with a static IP address, or you can use a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to set the IP
address of the device. DHCP is enabled by default. The device supports both IPv4 and IPv6.
Using DHCP to set the IP address
When using DHCP, the device obtains its IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway address from the DHCP server. The DHCP
client can only connect to a DHCP server that is on the same subnet as the device. If your DHCP server is not on the same subnet as the
device, use a static IP address.
46
Value
9600
8
None
1
None
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