Avocent Cyclades ACS 6000 Installation & Administrators Manual page 66

54 Cyclades ACS 6000 Advanced Console Server Installation/Administration/User Guide
To enable and configure data buffering for ports configured with CAS profile:
1. Select Appliance Settings - Ports - CAS Profile - Default Settings - Data Buffering. The Data
Buffering screen is displayed.
2. Choose Enable or Disable data buffering from the Status checkbox.
3. Chose the type of data buffering desired from the Type pull-down menu.
4. Choose Enable or Disable from the Include Time Stamp pull-down menu.
5. Choose Enable or Disable from the Include Log-in/Log-out Message pull-down menu.
6. Choose Enable (store data always) or Disable (store data when no CAS session is open) from
the User Session Logging pull-down menu.
7. Click Save.
To edit the CAS profile parameters for one or multiple ports:
1. Select Appliance Settings - Ports - CAS Profile - Devices. The Devices screen appears with a
list of all ports that are configured with the CAS Profile. (Device is the name of the port and
Name is the configured or discovered name of the connected device.)
2. To edit multiple ports, perform the following steps.
a. Select the checkbox for each port individually or select the checkbox on the heading row
to select all listed ports. The Multi-Edit button is activated.
b. Click the Multi-Edit button. The Multi-edit Wizard screen appears.
c. Select the checkboxes to activate configuration options for Configure CAS General
Settings, Configure Alerts Strings or Configure Data Buffering Settings.
d. Select the checkboxes in each section to enable or disable the individual options.
e. When finished, click Next. The following screen will depend on the options selected in
sub-step c. above.
3. To edit one port, perform the following steps.
a. Click the port name in the Device column. The General, Alerts, Data Buffering and Power
options appear in the left nav bar with the General option selected.
b. To enable the port, specify the connection protocol, configure authentication, enable auto
discovery, configure the name and other general settings, select the General option.
c. To enable and configure up to ten strings to generate event notifications if detected during
a session, select the Alerts option.
d. To enable and configure data buffering, select the Data Buffering option, choose Enable
from the Status menu, chose the type of data buffering from the Type menu, choose
Enable or Disable from the Include Time Stamp menu and the Include Log-in/Log-out
Message menu; choose Enable (store data always) or Disable (store data when no CAS
session is open) from the User Session Logging menu.
e. To configure the port so that users can manage power while connected to the target device,
select the Power option and choose Select PDU or Custom. See To enable and configure a