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Chapter 14
Command Line Configuration
CONFIGURATION FROM THE COMMAND LINE
Introduction
For those who prefer to configure their
console server
at the Linux command line level (rather than use a browser and
the Management Console), this chapter describes how to use command line access and the
config
tool to manage the
console server
and configure the ports, etc.
This
config
documentation in this chapter walks through command line configuration to deliver the functions provided
using the Management Console GUI.
For advanced and custom configurations and for details using other tools and commands, refer to the next chapter.
When displaying a command, the convention used in the rest of this chapter is to use single quotes ('') for user-‐defined
values (for example, descriptions and names). Element values without single quotes must be typed exactly as shown.
After the initial section on accessing the
config
command, the menu items in this document follow the same structure as
the menu items in the web GUI.
14.1 Accessing
config
from the command line
The
console server
runs a standard Linux kernel and embeds a suite of open source applications. If you do not want to
use a browser and the Management Console tools, you can configure the
console server
and manage connected devices
from the command line using standard Linux and Busybox commands and applications such as
ifconfig, gettyd, stty,
powerman, nut etc
. Without care, these configurations may not withstand a
power-‐cycle-‐reset
or
reconfigure
.
Black Box provides a number of custom command line utilities and scripts to make it simple to configure the
console
server
and make sure the changes are stored in the
console server
's flash memory, etc.
In particular, the
config
utility allows you to manipulate the system configuration from the command line. With
config,
you can activate a new configuration by running the relevant configurator, which performs the action needed to make
the configuration changes live.
To access
config
from the command line:
Power on the
console server
and connect the “terminal” device:
o
If you are connecting using the serial line, plug a serial cable between the
console server
local DB9 console
port and terminal device. Configure the serial connection of the terminal device you are using to 115200
bps, 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit.
o
If you are connecting over the LAN, then you will need to interconnect the Ethernet ports and direct your
terminal emulator program to the IP address of the
console server
(192.168.0.1 by default).
Log on to the
console server
by pressing “return” a few times. The
console server
will request a username and
password. Enter the username
root
and the password
default
. You should now see the command line prompt
which is a hash (#).
