Connecting A Console Cable - Huawei USG6000 Series Hardware Manual

HUAWEI USG6000 Series
Hardware Guide
Step 2 After the installation is complete, perform the following operations:
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3.5.5 Connecting a Console Cable

This section describes how to use a console cable to connect the PC to the console port of the
USG. Then you can use the terminal software installed on the PC to access the CLI of the
USG.
Context
The preparations for connecting console cables are as follows:
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Operations after the USG power-on must be performed after all installation tasks are complete.
Before the USG is powered on, ensure that the hard disk units are correctly installed.
After the USG is powered on,
a. In the user view, run the display disk information command to check whether the
Filesystem Status value is Un-Mounted and the DiskRaidMode value is
INACTIVE.
NOTICE
b.
After the RAID is created, the data in the primary disk will be synchronized to the
secondary disk and the original data on the secondary disk will be overwritten.
Select the disk-id of the primary disk before creating RAID.
NOTE
The synchronization process will take several hours. During data synchronization, other
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services can be used, but the hard disks do not record real-time logs for the services.
After data synchronization is complete, the hard disks start to work normally. You can
run the display disk information command in the user view one day later to check
whether the Filesystem Status value is Mounted. If not, contact Huawei technical
support personnel.
If you run the display device command to display the state of the disk during the
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synchronization, the state will be Abnormal, indicating that the disk in unavailable. After
data synchronization completes, the state of the disk will be Normal.
In the system view, run the reset raid primary-disk disk-id command to create a
RAID group using disk-id as the primary disk for data synchronization.
Check construction conditions.
Check whether the PC is ready, the USG is installed, and the ports for the connections
are planned.
Label the cables.
The cables must be labeled before being connected to the devices.
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