ADIC SNC 5100, Scalar 1000 manual Initial Setup of HyperTerminal, Verifying the Connection

SNC 5100

Initial Setup of HyperTerminal

This section shows the steps to setup use the HyperTerminal program. Other terminal emulation programs operate in a similar fashion.

Step 1. Connect the null modem cable (and the 9- to 25-pin adapter if applicable) from the computer serial (COM) port to the SNC 5100 Service Port.

Step 2. Turn on the service terminal.

Step 3. On the service terminal, select the HyperTerminal icon and double-click on it.

Step 4. In the New Connection dialog enter SNC5100 for the name and click OK.

Step 5. In the Connect To dialog, for the Connect using field select the COM Port number that you have chosen and click OK.

Step 6. In the COM Properties dialog select the following:

Bits per second:19200

Data bits:8

Parity:None

Stop bits:1

Flow Control: Hardware or Xon/Xoff

Step 7. Click OK.

Verifying the Connection

If the SNC 5100 is already on, then characters typed in the terminal should be visible to the operator. The simplest test is to press the Enter key. The SNC

5100 responds by displaying a command prompt:

Example:

SN60023 >

When the SNC 5100 is rebooting, several messages are displayed on the service terminal. A successful boot is indicated by the last message: “Done executing startup script”.

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