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10.4.8TRANSFER CHANNEL LIST

You can use the Serial Channel-List Menu to edit the local Management Card’s channel list in any of several ways (see Section 10.3.1). Once you finish making your desired changes, you can choose option 9 at the main menu in order to send the new and improved channel list to another Management Card elsewhere in your system—or to receive the list from another Card if there’s a better version elsewhere, or if changes you made to the local Card’s list turn out to have been mistaken. When you select this option, these lines will be displayed on the screen:

Transfer Channel List

Configure Transfer Settings

Press SPACE to change, ENTER to accept

Transfer Option: Transmit

You can can press [Enter] to accept the default “Transmit” option, so that the local Management Card sends its channel list to the remote Card, which replaces its own list with the local Card’s. Or you can toggle to “Receive,” so that the local Card overwrites its own list with the remote Card’s. Either way, you will be prompted for the address of the remote Card:

Channel address [0-H]:

As soon as you enter the address (chassis number followed by slot letter) of the remote Management Card, the transfer begins. You will receive one of these messages to indicate the result of the attempted transfer:

Successfully completed

Disconnected from remote

Invalid remote password

Remote channel busy

No response from remote

10.4.9MAIN MENU SERIAL PORT ENABLE/DISABLE

If you’re not going to be running a VT100 session on the Management Card’s serial port, you can run cable from it to a PC running terminal-emulation software such as HyperTerminal and access the Card’s System Management Tools Main Menu directly rather than through the User-Interface Card with On-Screen Display. To enable this kind of communication, choose option 10 at the Main Menu. These lines will appear:

Current Main Menu serial port status is DISABLED.

Press SPACE to change, ENTER to accept

Press the spacebar to toggle the setting. This line appears:

Main Menu serial port is currently ENABLED.

At this point, you must press Enter to return to the System Management Tools Main Menu. Any terminal- emulating PC attached to the Management Card’s serial port will now be able to access this menu directly until this setting is switched back to DISABLED.

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