Perle Systems STS, SCS manual Setting Up the Serial Ports

Setting Up the Serial Port(s)

Setting Up the Serial Port(s)

The DeviceManager and WebManager have the following serial port profiles that will simplify serial port setup:

zConsole Management—The Console Management profile configures a serial port to provide network access to a console or administrative port. This profile sets up a serial port to support a TCP socket that listens for a Telnet or SSH connection from the network.

zTruePort—The TruePort profile configures a serial port to connect network servers or workstations running the TruePort software to a serial device as a virtual COM port. This profile is ideal for connecting multiple serial ports to a network system or server.

zTCP Sockets—The TCP Sockets profile configures a serial port to allow a serial device to communicate over a TCP network. The TCP connection can be configured to be initiated from the network, a serial device connected to the serial port, or both. This is sometimes referred to as a raw connection or a TCP raw connection.

zUDP Sockets—The UDP Sockets profile configures a serial port to allow communication between the network and serial devices connected to the IOLAN using the UDP protocol.

zTerminal—The Terminal profile configures a serial port to allow network access from a terminal connected to the IOLAN’s serial port. This profile is used to access predefined hosts on the network from the terminal.

zPrinter—The Printer profile configures a serial port to support a serial printer that can be accessed by the network.

zSerial Tunneling—The Serial Tunneling profile configures a serial port to establish a virtual link over the network to a serial port on another IOLAN. Both IOLAN serial ports must be configured for Serial Tunneling (typically one serial port is configured as a Tunnel Server and the other serial port as a Tunnel Client).

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