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SERIAL CONSOLE PORT MANAGER
To select common parameters for all of the Port Manager’s RS-232 ports, proceed
as follows:
1. Access the Port Manager’s Command Mode. If the password prompt is
displayed, key in your Supervisor Password.
2. At the command prompt, type
/CP
and press
[Enter]
. The Copy Port
Parameters menu will be displayed.
3.
Selecting Parameters:
To select parameters to be copied, key in the number
for the desired parameter, press
[Enter]
, and then follow the instructions in
the submenu. Note that it is not necessary to define all port parameters; for
example, the /CP command could be used to select only the Baud Rate for all
ports.
NOTE
The /CP command will only copy the parameters that are currently
displayed by the Copy Port Parameters menu. One exception: Although
the Port Password is not displayed, the selected password will be
copied if the field for this item reads “defined”.
4.
Clear Menu:
After defining several parameters, if you wish to clear the /CP
menu and start again, type
-
(dash) and press
[Enter]
. The menu will be
reset.
5.
Copy Parameters:
When you have finished selecting parameters, press
[Esc]
to copy the selected parameters to all of the Port Manager’s RS-232 ports and
exit from the Copy Port Parameters menu. Note that the Port Manager will
display an “Are you sure?” prompt before copying parameters to other ports.
5.7 Saving User-Selected Parameters
Although you don’t have to, we
strongly recommend
that you save all user-defined
parameters to an ASCII file on an attached PC. Later, if the configuration is altered
or deleted, the file with the saved parameters can be used to quickly restore the
Serial Console Port Manager to its former state.
Chapter 8
describes the procedure
for saving and restoring configuration parameters.
