About Menus - Digi PortServer CM User Manual

9. Choose Stop digi_ras. After a pause, Status field should change from Active to Inactive, and the text on
the button should change to Start digi_ras. If it does not, repeat this step.
10. Choose Start digi_ras.

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Introduction
The use of multi-level menus makes the connections to peripheral devices on the network or serial ports
much easier for PortServer CM users. This feature enables a system administrator to define menus
containing a list of actions a user or group of users can perform. The menu capability is available from the
command line interface in text format. Most console management users will access the menus through
Telnet or SSH, but the menus are also available from a terminal connected to a serial port.
Menus must be created by the system administrator. Menus are written in XML (eXtensible Markup
Language - see XML Basics on page 3-24 for help with XML tagging), and may be created and edited with
the text editor in the Web Management Interface. For administrators that do not have access to a web
browser, a limited version of vi is included on the system to use for editing the files. A sample menu with the
filename menu.xml and a default template with the filename defaultmenu.xml are included to help create
new menus. They are located in the /etc/menu directory. All menus for a specific user or group of users must
be contained in a single file.
A menu consists of a list of menu items. Choosing a menu item executes the action or takes the user to a sub-
menu. Page Up and Page Down keys allow the user to scroll pages that are larger than screen size. Each
menu item has a key that is an ASCII character, entering the key character executes the menu item or opens
a submenu. The Q or q key returns the user to the parent menu. The administrator may assign any key to
function as quit. A + sign beside a menu item indicates a sub-menu.
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