Black Box LES144BA, LES1332A Cascaded Ports, # config -g config.devices.total, # config -hosts

If you want to add the new host as a managed device, make sure you use the current total number of managed devices + 1, for the new device number.

To get the current number of managed devices:

# config -g config.devices.total

Assuming we already have one managed device, our new device will be device 2. Issue the following commands:

#config -s config. devices.device2.connections.connection1.name=192.168.3.10

#config -s config. devices.device2.connections.connection1.type=Host

#config -s config. devices.device2.name=OfficePC

#config -s config. devices.device2.description=MyPC

#config -s config.devices.total=2

The following command will synchronize the live system with the new configuration:

# config -hosts

14.7Trusted Networks

You can further restrict remote access to serial ports based on the source IP address. To configure this via the command line, you need to do the following:

Determine the total number of existing trusted network rules. If you have no existing rules, you can assume this is 0.

# config -g config.portaccess.total

This command should display config.portaccess.total 1

Note that if you see config.portaccess.total this means you have 0 rules configured.

Your new rule will be the existing total plus 1. So if the previous command gave you 0, then you start with rule number 1. If you already have 1 rule your new rule will be number 2, etc.

If you want to restrict access to serial port 5 to computers from a single class C network (192.168.5.0 for example), you need to issue the following commands (assuming you have a previous rule in place).

Add a trusted network:

#config -s config.portaccess.rule2.address=192.168.5.0

#config -s "config.portaccess.rule2.description=foo bar"

#config -s config.portaccess.rule2.netmask=255.255.255.0

#config -s config.portaccess.rule2.port5=on

#config -s config.portaccess.total=2

The following command will synchronize the live system with the new configuration:

# config -r serialconfig

14.8Cascaded Ports

To add a new slave device with the following settings:

IP address/DNS name	192.168.0.153
Description	Console in office 42
Label	les1116-5
Number of ports	16

The following commands must be issued:

_____________________________________________________________________

724-746-5500 blackbox.com Page 223