Black Box Pro Switching System 4 Network Backup Switches, NBS008A manual R6000 Console Commands

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Chapter 5: Operation

5.3Enhanced RS-232 Terminal Commands (For Network Manageable Models, NBS004MA, NBS006MA, NBS008MA, NBSALL8MGR, or NBS016MA)

This section is applicable to network manageable switch models (NBS004MA, NBS006MA, NBS008MA, NBSALL8MGR, or NBS016MA). The RS-232 DB9 interface and the GANG IN interface on network manageable models operates at 9600 bps (rather than at 1200 bps as is the case for a unit without the Ethernet Module installed). The GANG OUT interface remains unchanged and continues to operate at 2400 bps. This allows the GANG OUT interface to still be used to connect to the GANG IN port on another switch (that does not have the Ethernet Module installed), so that multiple racks can be daisychained together. When daisychaining multiple racks, only the first rack in the chain may have an Ethernet Module installed.

Network manageable switches support an enhanced set of serial commands that are listed below and described in more detail in Section 7. To communicate with a switch with an Ethernet Module, set your RS-232 terminal to 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. Connect this terminal to the DB9 interface on the switch (use a straight-through M/F cable to connect to an IBM PC standard DB9 serial port).

When you apply power to the system, the Ethernet Module runs a series of internal self tests and configuration steps. This takes approximately 5 seconds. After this process is complete you will see a sign-on message displayed on your serial console, similar to the following:

R6000 Agent Version 2.9N JUL 2010 Copyright <c> 2009

All rights reserved System starting ...

Rack position A Console ready

>

At this point the switch is now ready to receive RS-232 serial commands via the DB9 or GANG IN connector. If you type “help” followed by the ENTER KEY, the list of available commands will be displayed as shown below. See Section 7 for a detailed description of each command.

R6000 CONSOLE COMMANDS:

GET ALL display all settings/configuration parameters

GET VERSION display software versions

GET[SET] SYSTEM [A/B] display/set all ports in system

GET[SET] RACK N [A/B] display/set all ports in a single rack

GET[SET] PORT N [A/B] display/set a single port in a rack

GET EVERYRACK display status for all racks

GET EVERYRACK N display status for rack 1 thru N

GET POWER N display power supply status for a rack

GET[SET] IPADDRESS [X.X.X.X] display/set IP address of E/N network module

GET[SET] SUBNETMASK [X.X.X.X] display/set subnet mask of E/N network module

GET[SET] GATEWAY [X.X.X.X] display/set the gateway router’s IP address

GET[SET] PINGREPLY [ON/OFF]

GET[SET] SNMPENABLE [ON/OFF]

GET[SET] READCOMMUNITYNAME [string] display/set network module SNMP read password

GET[SET] WRITECOMMUNITYNAME [string] display/set network module SNMP write password

GET[SET] WEBENABLE [ON/OFF] display/set web browser interface status

GET[SET] WEBPASSWORD [string] display/set web browser interface password

GET[SET] WEBTIMEOUT [N] (seconds) display/set web browser interface timeout

GET[SET] WEBPORT [N] display/set web interface port number

GET[SET] TELNETENABLE [ON/OFF] display/set telnet interface status

GET[SET] TELNETPASSWORD [string] display/set telnet interface password

GET[SET] TELNETTIMEOUT [N] (seconds) display/set telnet interface timeout

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Black Box Pro Switching System 4 Network Backup Switches, NBS008A manual R6000 Console Commands

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