Connecting to Console Port for Local Management

3.6CONNECTING TO CONSOLE PORT FOR LOCAL MANAGEMENT

This section describes how to install a UTP straight-through cable with RJ45 connectors and optional adapters to connect a PC, a VT series terminal, or a modem to an Enterasys Networks module to access CLI commands. This section also provides the pinout assignments of the adapters.

3.6.1What Is Needed

One RJ45-to-DB9 female adapter (supplied with the device).

The following is a list of the user-supplied parts that may be needed depending on the connection:

UTP straight-through cable with RJ45 connectors

RJ45-to-DB25 female adapter

RJ45-to-DB25 male adapter

Using a UTP straight-through cable with RJ45 connectors and RJ45-to-DB9 adapter, you can connect products equipped with an RJ45 Console port to an IBM or compatible PC running a VT series emulation software package.

Using a UTP straight-through cable and an optional RJ45-to-DB25 female adapter, you can connect products equipped with an RJ45 Console port to a VT series terminal or VT type terminals running emulation programs for the VT series.

Using a UTP straight-through cable and an optional RJ45-to-DB25 male adapter, you can connect products equipped with an RJ45 Console port to a Hayes compatible modem that supports

9600 baud.

3.6.2Connecting to an IBM or Compatible Device

To connect an IBM PC or compatible device, running the VT terminal emulation, to an Enterasys Networks module Console port (Figure 3-14), proceed as follows:

1.

Connect the RJ45 connector at one end of the cable

(not supplied) to the Console port on

 

the Enterasys Networks device.

 

2.

Plug the RJ45 connector at the other end of the cable

into the RJ45-to-DB9 adapter (supplied

 

with the device).

 

3.

Connect the RJ45-to-DB9 adapter to the communications port on the PC .

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