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Cisco BPX 8600 Series Installation and Configuration
Release 9.3.30, Part Number 78-12907-01 Rev. E0, May 2005
Chapter 15 Connecting Temporary Terminal and Attaching Peripherals
Temporarily Connecting a Terminal or NMS to the Control Port
The BPX control and auxiliary ports are pinned as RS-232/V.24 DCE ports. When connecting a terminal,
PC, or other device pinned as RS-232/V.24 DTE to the control or auxiliary port, you may use a
straight-through cable. However, to connect a modem to the control or auxiliary ports, you must use a
null-modem cable.
The following cards are related to the procedures:
•
The BCC refers to the BCC-4V, BCC-3-32M, BCC-3-64M, or BCC-32.
•
The BCC-4V, BCC-3-32M, and BCC-3-64M require BCC-3-BC back cards.
•
The BCC-32 requires the BCC15-BC back card.
To attach a terminal to the BPX switch, use the following procedure:
Step 1
From the back of the cabinet, run the control terminal RS-232/V.24 cable through the opening at the
bottom and up to the LM-BCC card in back slot 7.
Step 2
For nodes with a single BCC:
Locate the CONTROL port connector on the LM-BCC in slot 7.
Attach the RS-232/V.24 cable as shown in Figure 15-1. Go to Step 5.
Step 3
For nodes with redundant BCCs:
A single cable is sufficient for temporarily connecting to the
CONTROL port of the active BCC during initial node configuration. However, if you want to monitor
the switchover function of the BCCs through the CONTROL port without swapping the cable from the
CONTROL port of one BCC to the CONTROL port of the other, you can use a Y-cable.
Connect one leg of the Y-cable to the CONTROL port connector on the back card in slot 7 and the other
leg to the slot 8 CONTROL port connector.
Step 4
Attach a RS-232/V.24 cable to the remaining leg of the Y-cable as shown in Figure 15-2.
Step 5
Fasten the cable connector to the control port connector with the captive screws on the connector hood.
Step 6
Plug the control terminal (or Cisco WAN Manager) power cord into the appropriate wall receptacle
(115 VAC or 240 VAC) and switch it on.
Step 7
Use the
cnftermfunc
command to set the port function as follows:
Next Command: cnftermfunc {
a
|
c
}[index]
Note
If you are using a “dumb” terminal, enter
2
as the index parameter to select VT100 only.
For parameter definitions that are used for the
cnftermfunc
command, refer to the
Cisco WAN Switching
Command Reference, Release 9.3.30
.
Step 8
Enter
c
for the
Control port
.
Step 9
Enter
1
as the index parameter to set VT100/StrataView.
Step 10
Use the
cnfterm
command (Go to Step 8) to check the other data transmission parameters as follows:
Next Command:
cnfterm
{
a
|
c
}[baud rate][data bits][stop bits][output flow
control{
x
|
n
}][input flow control{
x
|
n
}][CTS flow{
x
|
n
}][DTR{
y
|
n
}]
For parameter definitions that are used for the
cnfterm
command, refer to the
Cisco WAN Switching
Command Reference, Release 9.3.30
.
Summary of Contents for BPX 8650
Page 49: ...P A R T 1 The BPX Switch ...
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Page 159: ...P A R T 2 Installation ...
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Page 273: ...P A R T 3 Initial Configuration and Network Management ...
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Page 311: ...P A R T 4 Configuring Connections ...
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Page 487: ...P A R T 5 Troubleshooting and Maintenance ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 6 BPX Specifications ...
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