IBM Partner Pavilion Remote Supervisor Adapter manual As M D E Mo

4.In the Settings window, select Serial Port 1. A window similar to the one in the following illustration opens.

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5.In the Baud Rate field, select a data-transfer rate.

The baud rate specifies the data-transfer rate of your serial port connection. To set the baud rate, select the data-transfer rate, in bits per second, that corresponds to your serial port connection.

6.In the Parity field, select the error detection to use in your serial connection.

7.In the Stop Bits field, select the number of data-terminating 1-bits that will follow the data or any parity bit to mark the end of a transmission (normally a byte or character).

Note: The number of data bits is preset to 8 and cannot be changed.

8.In the Dedicate to ASM field, select Yes to reserve the serial port for the Remote Supervisor Adapter.

If shared with the operating system, the serial port serves the Remote Supervisor Adapter when the server is turned off or if it is turned on during the power-on self-test (POST). The operating system can access it after the POST is completed. Only after a critical event will the Remote Supervisor Adapter take over the port from the operating system to dial out and transmit an alert. The port then remains under the Remote Supervisor Adapter control until the server is restarted.

Notes:

a.For the operating system and the Remote Supervisor Adapter to share the serial connector, you must install the Remote Supervisor Adapter device driver. If the Remote Supervisor Adapter device driver is not installed, the serial connector is dedicated to only the Remote Supervisor Adapter.

b.If a PPP interface is configured, dedicate the serial port to the Remote Supervisor Adapter or the PPP port will be lost when the host restarts.

9.If you need to set advanced settings, select Port 1 Advanced Modem Settings.

Set these values only if the alert forwarding functions are not working properly. The strings marked with an asterisk (*) require a carriage return (^M) to be manually entered at the end of the field value.

The following table describes the initialization strings for this modem.

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