Console Server Example - Black Box 16-Port Rackmount 10/100 Installation Manual

4.1 Console Server Example

When you use the Terminal Server as a console server, you can remotely manage devices
and equipment from anywhere on the network.
Figure 4-1: Console Server
To use the Terminal Server as a console server, you must connect the Terminal Server serial
ports to the serial console/management ports of other equipment such as UNIX servers,
PBX switches, routers, network switches, or other similar devices.
Once you have completed the connections, you can establish a Telnet connection to the
Terminal Server IP address and socket number of the desired port. The Terminal Server
serial ports allow two types of socket connections: Telnet IAC interpretation at socket
200x, and raw TCP connections at socket 300x, where x is the port number. For example,
to open a Telnet connection to port 4 of an Terminal Server at IP address 192.0.1.168, you
would issue the command "Telnet 192.0.1.168:2004" from your system prompt.
In addition to direct Telnet connections, you can use the Terminal Server's built-in menu
feature. The Terminal Server menu allows you to connect to the IP address of the Terminal
Server and be greeted with a menu with which to connect to each attached serial device.
Menu choices are an easy way to let users access often-used hosts and services without
needing to know any Terminal Server command syntax, the IP addresses of the non-local
devices, or the socket numbers involved.
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