Serial Port, Host, Device & User Configuration; Configuring Serial Ports - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

Chapter 4: Serial Port, Device and User Configuration
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Configuring Serial Ports

To configure a serial port you must first set the Common Settings (Chapter 4.1.1) that are to be used for the data connection
to that port (e.g. baud rate) and the mode the port is to operate in. Each port can be set to support one of five operating
modes:
i. Console Server Mode (Chapter 4.1.2) is the default setting and enables general access to the serial console port on
serially attached devices
ii. Device Mode (Chapter 4.1.3) sets the serial port up to communicate with an intelligent serial controlled PDU, UPS or
Environmental Monitor Devices (EMD)
iii. SDT Mode (Chapter 4.1.4) enables graphical console access (with RDP , VNC, HTTPS etc) to hosts that are serially
connected
iv. Terminal Server Mode (Chapter 4.1.5) sets the serial port to await an incoming terminal login session
v. Serial Bridge Mode (Chapter 4.1.6) enables the transparent interconnection of two serial port devices over a network
To select the serial port to configure:
• Select Serial & Network: Serial Port and click Edit on the port to be reconfigured
Note: If you wish to set the same protocol options for multiple serial ports at once, click Edit Multiple Ports and select which
ports you wish to configure as a group
• When you have configured the common settings and the mode for each port, set up any remote syslog (Chapter 4.1.7),
then click Apply
• If the Console Server has been configured with distributed Nagios monitoring enabled then you will also be presented
with Nagios Settings options to enable nominated services on the Host to be monitored (refer to Chapter 10 – Nagios
Integration)
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