Managing The Slaves; Serial Port Redirection; Install Virtualport Client - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

4.6.4

Managing the Slaves

The Master is in control of the Slave serial ports. So, for example, if you change a User's access privileges
or edit any serial port setting on the Master, the updated configuration files will be sent out to each
Slave in parallel. Each Slave will then automatically make changes to their local configurations (and only
make those changes that relate to its particular serial ports).
You can still use the local Slave Management Console to change the settings on any Slave serial port
(such as to alter the baud rates). However these changes will be overwritten next time the Master sends
out a configuration file update.
Also while the Master is in control of all Slave serial port related functions, it is not master over the Slave
network host connections or over the Slave Console Server system itself.
So Slave functions such as IP, SMTP & SNMP Settings, Date &Time, DHCP server must be managed by
accessing each Slave directly and these functions are not overwritten when configuration changes are
propagated from the Master. Similarly, the Slave's Network Host and IPMI settings have to be
configured at each Slave.
Also, the Master's Management Console provides a consolidated view of the settings for its own and all
the Slave's serial ports. However, the Master does not provide a fully consolidated view. For example, if
you want to find out who is logged in to cascaded serial ports from the Master, you'll see that Status:
Active Users only displays those users active on the Master's ports, so you may need to write custom
scripts to provide this view. This is covered in Chapter 11.
4.7

Serial Port Redirection

Tripp Lite's VirtualPort software delivers the virtual serial port technology your Windows
applications need to open remote serial ports and read the data from serial devices that are
connected to your Console Server.
VirtualPort is supplied with each B096-016 / B096-048 Console Server Management Switch or
B092-016 Console Server with PowerAlert or B095-003-1E-M / B095-004-1E Console Server.
You are licensed to install VirtualPort on one or more computers for accessing any serial device
connected to any Tripp Lite Console Server port.
4.7.1

Install VirtualPort Client

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