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AlterPath ACS Command Reference Guide
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Additional Features and Applications
9.4 CAS Port Pool
This feature is available for the ACS 2.1.4 onward. CAS Port Pooling allows you to
access a free serial port from a pool in addition to the original feature where you could
access a specific serial port. When you access a serial port through the pool the features
sniff session and multiple sessions are not available. This feature is available for serial
ports configured as CAS profile only.
You can define more than one pool of serial ports. Each serial port can only belong to
ONE pool.The pool is uniquely identified by a four parameter scheme:
•
protocol,
•
pool_ipno,
•
pool_alias, and
•
pool_socket_port
The three new parameters:
pool_ipno
,
pool_alias
, and
pool_socket_port
have the same
meaning as
ipno
,
alias
, and
socket_port
respectively. Ports belonging to the same pool
MUST be configured with the same value in these fields.
It is strongly recommended that you configure the same values in all parameters related
to authentication for all serial ports belonging to a pool. Some of the authentication
parameters are
users
,
admin_users
, and
authtype
.
You can access the serial ports from a pool with the same commands you use today to
access a specific serial port. You just need to use pool_ipno, pool_alias, or
pool_socket_port instead ipno, alias, or socket_port respectively in the SSH/Telnet
command.
When a connection request arrives using one of
pool_ipno
,
pool_alias
, or
pool_socket_port
the ACS will look for the first free serial port from the pool and that
port will be assigned to connection. If there is no serial port free in the pool the
connection is just dropped.
How to Configure it
The configuration for this feature is made directly in the
/etc/portslave/pslave.conf
file.
Don’t forget to activate and save the configuration by issuing the commands
runconf
and
saveconf
respectively.
VI method
Following is an example of serial port pool configuration:
Summary of Contents for AlterPath ACS
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Page 204: ...188 Administration To exit the CLI mode and return to ACS s shell issue the command cli quit...
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