Avocent Cyclades ACS 5000 Installation & Administrators Manual page 20

8 Cyclades ACS 5000 Installation/Administration/User Guide
Conventions used to identify outlets
Several formats (such as outlet names, outlet groups, IPDU IDs and port names) can be used to
identify outlets during configuration, as described below:
• An administrator can configure optional names for each outlet to replace the default names
assigned by the system. Outlet names must begin with a letter. Valid characters are letters,
numbers, dash (-) and underscore (_). When an outlet name is configured, the name can be
used in other power management configurations.
NOTE: Outlet names can be configured in two places in the Web Manager. Ensure that names are consistent.
• An administrator can configure outlet groups. Once defined, outlet groups are specified with
the dollar sign ($) prefix followed by the outlet group name: $outlet_groupname. For example,
$Cyclades_IPDU specifies an outlets group called Cyclades_IPDU.
• An administrator can specify outlets in any of the following ways:
• With a name that was configured for the outlet
• With an outlet group name preceded by the $ suffix
• With the IPDU ID assigned to the IPDU
• With the port number to which the IPDU is connected
The IPDU and port number are always followed by one or more outlet numbers in brackets:
[outlets]. Commas between outlet numbers indicate multiple outlets. Hyphens indicate a range.
For example, [1,5-8] specifies outlets 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
• IPDU ID - An IPDU ID is automatically assigned to each IPDU when the port to which it is
connected is configured for power management. An administrator can optionally assign a
name to each IPDU. Both automatically assigned and administrator-assigned names are
referred to as IPDU IDs.
• Specify outlets with the IPDU ID in the following format: IPDU_ID[outlets]. For
example, ilA[4,5] specifies outlets 4 and 5 on an IPDU whose ID is ilA.
• When devices are plugged into more than one IPDU, you can separate multiple IPDU
entries with commas in the form IPDU_ID[outlets],IPDU_ID[outlets]. For example,
i1A[1,5],i1B[2] specifies two outlets on IPDU i1A and one outlet on a daisy-chained
IPDU whose IPDU ID is ilB.
• Port number - To specify outlets by the port number to which the IPDU is connected, use the
suffix !ttyS followed by the port number followed by [outlets]. For example, !ttyS2[16]
indicates outlet 16 on an IPDU that is connected to serial port 2.
You can specify outlets in a chain of IPDUs with the port ID two different ways:
• By the outlet sequence. For example, in !ttyS3[2,16], outlet number 2 is the second outlet
on the first IPDU in a chain that is connected to port 3. If the first IPDU has 10 outlets,
outlet number 16 would be the sixth outlet on the second IPDU.