CHAPTER 3: Installation
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3.6 Making Cable Connections
3.6.1 C
ONSOLE
(ASYNC) C
ONNECTIONS
The Remote Access Concentrator’s RJ-45 female RS-232 console port (labeled ASYNC) is the gateway to the
Concentrator’s local management (configuration) utility. It’s proprietarily pinned out this way:
Pin
Function
1
Transmit Data (TD)
2
Carrier Detect (CD)
3
Data Set Ready (DSR)
4
Receive Data (RD)
5
Signal Ground (SGND)
6
Data Terminal Ready (DTR)
7
Request To Send (RTS)
8
Clear to Send (CTS)
(Refer to the Concentrator’s HTML documentation for complete information about this port and its two
associated LEDs.)
To attach a console to this port, use the included RJ-45 male-to-male console cable to make the following
connection:
1. Plug one end of the cable into the Concentrator’s console (ASYNC) port.
2. Plug the other end of the cable into the RJ-45 to DB9 adapter that’s included with the Concentrator in its
“console cabling kit.”
3. Plug the adapter into the serial port of a terminal or of a PC running a communications package that can
do VT100™ emulation.
PC
Console
connection
RJ-45 to DB9
Adapter
RJ-45 console
cable
Serial ports
Front panel
of
Concentrator
