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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:
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Console 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 connection from the network.
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COMredirect
—The COMredirect profile configures a serial port to connect network servers or
workstations running the COMredirect 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.
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TCP 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.
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UDP Sockets
—The UDP Sockets profile configures a serial port to allow communication
between the network and serial devices connected to the Terminal Server using the UDP
protocol.
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Terminal
—The Terminal profile configures a serial port to allow network access from a terminal
connected to the Terminal Server’s serial port. This profile is used to access predefined hosts on
the network from the terminal.
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Serial Tunneling
—The Serial Tunneling profile configures a serial port to establish a virtual link
over the network to a serial port on another Terminal Server. Both Terminal Server 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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Virtual Modem
—The Virtual Modem (Vmodem) profile configures a serial port to simulate a
modem. When the serial device connected to the Terminal Server initiates a modem connection,
the Terminal Server starts up a TCP connection to another Terminal Server configured with a
Virtual Modem serial port or to a host running a TCP application.
