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Select
Serial Bridging Mode
and specify the IP address of the
Server console server
and the TCP
port address of the remote serial port (for RFC2217 bridging this will be 5001-5048).
By default, the bridging client will use RAW TCP. Select RFC2217 if this is the
console server
mode you have specified on the server
console server.
You may secure the communications over the local Ethernet by enabling SSH. You will need to
generate and upload keys (refer to
Chapter 14— Advanced Configuration
).
4.1.8 Syslog
In addition to built-in logging and monitoring (which can be applied to serial-attached and network-
attached management accesses, as covered in
Chapter
7—
Alerts and Logging
), you can also configure
the
console server
to support the remote syslog protocol on a per serial port basis:
Select the
Syslog Facility/Priority
fields to enable logging of traffic on the selected serial port to
a syslog server; and to appropriately sort and action those logged messages (that is, redirect
them/send alert email etc.).
For example, if the computer attached to serial port 3 should never send anything out on its serial
console port, the
Administrator
can set the
Facility
for that port to
local0
(
local0 .. local7
are for site
local values), and the
Priority
to
critical
. At this priority, if the
console server
syslog server does receive a
message, it will automatically raise an alert. Refer to
Chapter 7—Alerts & Logging.
COM port
connected
control PC
Serially connected
control PC
Local Ethernet
LAN
Console Server
