64Cyclades® ACS 5000 Installation/Administration/User Guide

3.In the User field, enter the username.

4.In the Outlets field, enter the group name, IPDU number and outlets that the user can control.

5.Click OK.

Outlet entry conventions

In the most basic case, only the IPDU’s ID and the outlets named in brackets following the ID are needed to specify which outlets will be accessible by the user. It is sometimes desirable to have more control over outlet groups, daisy-chained IPDUs or which serial port on the console server must be used for the permissions to be valid. The following table shows the prefix, suffix and syntax information used to specify outlets in various circumstances.

Table 6.6: Conventions Used in Specifying Outlets for User Accessibility

Symbol

Type

Signifies

Example

$

Prefix

Group

$Cyclades_PDU would specify the Cyclades_PDU outlets group, and

that the user specified has permission to control that group of outlets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

!ttyS2 would specify serial port 2 on the console server would be the

!ttyS

Prefix

Serial port

only one the user would have permissions to use for IPDU management,

 

 

 

regardless of the IPDU or outlets specified.

 

 

Order of

!ttyS2-B[1-8]would indicate that serial port 2 on the console server

A through Z

Suffix

IPDU in

would be used to control the second IPDU in the chain (B), followed by

 

 

daisy-chain

the outlet or range of outlets on that IPDU with user permissions.

NOTE: Daisy-chained IPDUs (A, B, C, etc.) create sequentially numbered outlets across IPDUs.

The following figure shows two daisy-chained (master/slave) IPDUs connected to serial port 2 on the console server.

Figure 6.2: Various Outlet Designations on Daisy-chained IPDUs

Table 6.7: Outlet Designations on Daisy-chained IPDUs (PM10 shown)

Number Description

1Console server with serial connection shown at Port 2. The IPDU can be connected to any serial port.

2This is the first IPDU in the chain.

3This is the second IPDU in the chain.

There are three methods to specify an outlet. The following table describes the three methods.

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Avocent ACS 5000 manual Outlet entry conventions, Prefix Group