Accessing Serial Ports Using Ts_Menu; Table 4.4: Telnet Session Configuration Parameters; Table 4.5: Ssh Session Configuration Parameters - Avocent Cyclades ACS Command Reference Manual

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To open and close a telnet session to a serial port:
# telnet [hostname] [TCP port number]

Table 4.4: Telnet Session Configuration Parameters

Parameter
hostname
TCP port number
To close a Telnet session, press the hotkey defined for the Telnet client, the default is
To open and close an SSH session to a serial port:
# ssh -l [username]:[server] [hostname]

Table 4.5: SSH Session Configuration Parameters

Parameter
username
server
hostname
To close an SSH session, press the hotkey defined for the SSH client followed by a dot (.), the
default is tilde (
NOTE: Enter the escape character followed by a dot (

Accessing serial ports using ts_menu

The ts_menu is an application to facilitate connection to the serial ports. The following are the
methods of executing the ts_menu command.
• Calling ts_menu without specifying arguments.
• Calling ts_menu with command line arguments.
• Using CLI to call ts_menu.
Calling ts_menu without specific parameters
To access the serial port configured for Telnet or SSH, enter ts_menu at the shell prompt. The
server's aliases or serial ports are displayed as options to start a connection.
Description
Workstation name or its IP address.
TCP port number assigned to the serial port.
Description
User configured to access the serial port. It is present either in the local database or
in an authentication server such as Radius or LDAP.
TCP port number assigned to a serial port (for example 7001), pool of ports (for
example 3000), the alias for the server connected to that serial port or the alias of a
pool of ports.
Workstation name or its IP address.
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~
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) at the beginning of a line to close the SSH session.
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