Minicom Advanced Systems DX System 5. Power management

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4.9.1 Connecting the RS232 terminal

Connect the RS232 terminal to the DX User as illustrated in the figures below.

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Figure 15 Connecting the RS232 terminal

The table below shows the RS232 Serial cable 9 PIN D-SUB Male pin-out.

Pin Signal Description Pin Signal Description

1 CD Carrier Detect 6 DSR Data Set Ready

2 RxD Receive Data 7 RTS Request to Send

3 TxD Transmit Data 8 CTS Clear to Send

4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 9 RI Ring Indicator

5 GND System Ground

5. Power management

You can connect a Power management device to the DX Central; the DX Users can

then power devices on and off.

Connect the Power management device to the Serial port of the DX Central using

the Serial cable provided with the Power management device.

Connect the Power management device to each device by following the instructions

in the Power management device User Guide.

Contents

Main DX System User Guide Table of Contents Page Page Welcome 1. Introduction 2. Pre-installation guidelines Page USER GUIDE 8 3. DX system outline MINICOM Figure 1 DX system outline DX 832 3.2 DX User units Figure 4 illustrates the front panel of the DX User unit. DX User Figure 4 DX User front panel Page 4. Connecting the DX system Page 13 X-RICC RS232 X-RICC SUN DX Central X-RICC PS/2 CAT5 cables Up to 100M / 330ft To Server ports I 0 Page Page Page 5. Power management 6. Connecting Legacy KVM switches 7. Cascading DX Central units 19 0 Figure 16 Cascaded DX Central units connected with a Crossover cable The table below shows the Ethernet RJ 45 Connector pin-out. USER GUIDE Figure 17 Cascaded DX Central units connected to a hub/switch Figure 18 Configuration Wizard Page Page 8. Powering on the system 9. Configuration wizard (non-DX cascaded system) 10. Logging in 11. Configuring the DX system Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 12. Creating/editing Users and Groups Page Page Page Page Page 13. Arranging devices Page Page Page Page 14. Scanning a group of servers 15. Adjusting the picture quality 16. Connect - Private 17. Disconnect User 18. Connecting to a local computer 19. Updating the DX Central Page Page 20. Updating the DX User and XRICCS/RICCs Page 21. Events log Page 22. Troubleshooting - Resetting the DX Central 23. USB / SUN Combo keys 24. Technical specifications System DX units 25. Terminal hotkeys