Black Box 1101, 1102 Serial Port, Host, Device, and User Configuration, Configure Serial Ports

1101 and 1102 Secure Device Servers

5. Serial Port, Host, Device, and User Configuration

The Black Box LES1101A and LES1102A console server enables access and control of serially attached devices and network attached devices (hosts). The Administrator must configure access privileges for each of these devices, and specify the services that can be used to control the devices. The Administrator can also set up new users and specify each user’s individual access and control privileges.

		LAN	LES1102A
			Serial connected
			Linux, Solaris,
			Windows, UNIX, BSD
	Network connected
			servers
	(HTTP, HTTPS, IPMI,		VoIP PBX switch,
	ALOM, SOL, VNC,
			router, firewall,
	RDP, SSH, X, Telnet)
			power strip, UPS
		Figure 5-1. Configuration.
This chapter covers each of the steps in configuring hosts and serially attached devices:

Configure Serial Ports—setting up the protocols to be used in accessing serially-connected devices.

Users & Groups—setting up users and defining the access permissions for each of these users.

Authentication—covered in more detail in Chapter 9.

Network Hosts—configuring access to network connected devices (referred to as hosts).

Configuring Trusted Networks—nominate user IP addresses.

Cascading and Redirection of Serial Console Ports.

Connecting to Power (UPS PDU and IPMI) and Environmental Monitoring (EMD) devices.

Managed Devices—presents a consolidated view of all the connections.

5.1 Configure Serial Ports

To configure a serial port, you must first set the Common Settings (the protocols and the RS-232 parameters (such as baud rate) that will be used for the data connection to that port.

Select what mode the port is to operate in. You can set each port to support one of five operating modes:

1.Console Server Mode is the default and this enables general access to serial console port on the serially attached devices.

2.Device Mode sets the serial port up to communicate with an intelligent serial controlled PDU or UPS.

3.SDT Mode enables graphical console access (with RDP, VNC, HTTPS, etc.) to hosts that are serially connected.

4.Terminal Server Mode sets the serial port to wait for an incoming terminal login session.

5.Serial Bridge Mode enables transparently interconnects two serial port devices over a network.

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