Asante Technologies 1012 manual Connecting the Asanté Management Station for Out-of-Band

Chapter 2 — Connecting to the Network

Connecting Your

Asanté Management

Station for Out-of-

Band Management

Figure 2-9 shows only the out-of-band links in place.You still need to connect a Macintosh or PC running Asantéview 2.2 Out-of-Band software. Figure 2-10 shows the three ways that you can connect your Asanté Management Station for out-of-band management.

Hub #1

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

Hub #2

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

Hub #3

AMS Link Ports

Bridge/Hub RS232

Port

In-Band

Link

AMS

AsantéLink

Management Extender

StationCable

	AMS Out-of-Band Link				AMS Out-of-Band Link
									RS232 serial cable
									Modem
				RS232 serial cable					Phone line
			Asanté						Modem
		Management
			Station
Note: The example here shows									RS232 serial cable
three Asanté Management Sta-
tions. In an actual network, you
would normally only have one.								Asanté
						Management
							Station

Figure 2-10 Connecting the Asanté Management Station for Out-of-Band

With Hub #1, the station is connected to one of the hub AMS Link ports using the AMS Link Extender provided with the AsantéBridge 1012 and is actually part of the daisychain itself.The station could also have been connected to the AMS Link port on Hub #3 at the other end of the chain.The effect would be the same.

With Hub #2, the station is connected to the Bridge/Hub RS232 port using an RS232 serial data cable. In this case, the station is not considered part of the daisychain, although it can talk to any hub that is on the chain.

Hub #3 is identical to Hub #2 except for the modems.You must use Hayes or Hayes compatible modems supporting a baud rate of 9600.The hub side modem must be set up to auto-answer.

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