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Summary of Contents for ConsoleSwitch SCS232

Page 1: ...Rackit Technology Corporation 274 Madison Avenue New York NY 10016 Tel 212 679 0050 Fax 212 679 0040 1 8 0 0 6 3 6 3 4 3 4 www RackitTechnology com Technology Corporation Supported by ...

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Page 5: ...erference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential environment may cause harmful interference Product names mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Z Series Paragon MasterConsole MX4 MasterConsole MXU2 MasterConsole II MasterConsole SMX and their respective logos are registered trademarks of Raritan Computer Inc P...

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Page 7: ... INSTALLATION 7 CONSOLESWITCH STANDALONE INSTALLATION 7 CONSOLESWITCH WITH PARAGON INSTALLATION 10 CHAPTER 5 OPERATING CONSOLESWITCH 15 PARAGON OPERATION VIEWING STORED DATA 15 HOTKEY MODE 15 ACCESSING THE MAIN MENU 16 CHANNEL NAVIGATION 16 CHANNEL SCANNING 17 VIEWING STORED DATA 18 APPENDICES 21 APPENDIX A SPECIFICATIONS 21 APPENDIX B PIN OUT DIAGRAMS 22 APPENDIX C UPDATING PARAGON FIRMWARE 24 AP...

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Page 9: ...h SCS232 contains special circuitry that prevents transmission of accidental break signals to Sun Microsystems servers and thereby causing them to go to bootprom mode during ConsoleSwitch power down This circuitry requires approximately three seconds to fully discharge and ensure break safety Therefore IMPORTANT To recycle power turn ConsoleSwitch SCS232 off for at least 5 seconds before restartin...

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Page 11: ...a Self adhesive plastic feet To be used in non Rack Mounted 1 n a Set of documentation Manual Warrantee Information etc For your convenience eight nulling adapters two of each type are provided for the purpose of connecting two serial user consoles to ConsoleSwitch Although you will need only two adapters to connect user consoles save the extras for convenience these same adapters may be used to c...

Page 12: ...itan reseller to order ASCSDB25M RJ45 F to DB25 M nulling serial adapter ASCSDB25F RJ45 F to DB25 F nulling serial adapter ASCSDB9M RJ45 F to DB9 M nulling serial adapter ASCSDB9F RJ45 F to DB9 F nulling serial adapter PARAGON MULTI USER MULTI PLATFORM SWITCH Raritan s data center grade KVM switch provides network administrators with direct out of band access to multiple servers ConsoleSwitch SCS2...

Page 13: ...rs DB9 or DB25 To connect user consoles to ConsoleSwitch use the adapters provided with your ConsoleSwitch unit To connect devices to ConsoleSwtich customers should order adapters appropriate for each device to be connected available from your Raritan reseller Expert users may refer to Appendix B for ConsoleSwitch s exact RJ45 serial pin outs DISTANCE LIMITATIONS While ConsoleSwitch does not itsel...

Page 14: ...s Category 5e UTP Cable Belden DataTwist 350 UTP 1700A Solid Belden DataTwist 350 patch 1752A Stranded Category 6 UTP Cable Belden MediaTwist 1872A Solid Use of non certified cabling can result in video and data degradations that users may find unsatisfactory Certified Raritan cable products listed above are widely available and competitively priced When using certified cable users can transmit vi...

Page 15: ...to operate ConsoleSwitch are called user consoles By default ConsoleSwitch expects each user console to be set at the following parameters These settings may be changed later however in order to perform initial setup at least one user console must be set to these parameters Enter Return Key CR carriage return Baud Rate 9600 Data Bits 8 Stop Bits 1 Parity None Software Hardware Handshaking None By ...

Page 16: ...eSwitch Cabling connect each user console to either of the User Ports on the back of ConsoleSwitch Figure 4 User Console Cabling to ConsoleSwitch CONNECTING SERIAL DEVICES 1 For each device that you wish to control via ConsoleSwitch connect an appropriate Raritan supplied nulling serial adapter See Chapter 2 Introduction Related Products that fits the gender and form factor of the device s serial ...

Page 17: ...ed to that channel e g WWW1 NETRAT1 and press Channel names may be up to 12 characters in length they are stored in non volatile memory and will therefore be maintained even if ConsoleSwitch is powered off 2 If the device is set to 9600 Baud No Parity 8 Data Bits 1 Stop Bit then you are finished configuring the channel proceed to the next device 3 If the device is not set to 9600 Baud No Parity 8 ...

Page 18: ...Switch in a standalone solution should skip this section and refer to the previous section ConsoleSwitch Standalone Installation CONFIRM FIRMWARE VERSION ConsoleSwitch Paragon and the AUATC Terminal Emulator Converter auto negotiate and auto configure most of the settings necessary to work with each other this allows you to simply connect the devices together and perform all setup and operations t...

Page 19: ...ne CONNECTING SERIAL DEVICES 1 For each device that you wish to control via ConsoleSwitch connect an appropriate Raritan supplied nulling serial adapter See Chapter 2 Introduction Related Products that fits the gender and form factor of the device s serial console port sometimes labeled Admin COM Serial RS232 or AUX 2 Using standard straight through UTP cable of an appropriate length see Chapter 3...

Page 20: ...UTP cable should be inserted into the nulling serial adapter that you attached to AUATC in the previous step See Figure 8 for an illustration of the final connection 3 Using Category 5e UTP cable connect the AUATCs to two device ports of your Paragon switching unit P N UMT8 No adapters are necessary simply insert one end of the cable into an AUATC s UTP Cable port and the other end into the Parago...

Page 21: ...hlight the parameter cursor will turn blue 2 Assign the device a meaningful name of your choice e g WWW1 NETRAT1 Channel names may be up to 12 characters in length 3 Press ENTER to save the change Channel names are stored in non volatile memory and will therefore be maintained even if ConsoleSwitch or Paragon is powered off 4 Press S to save the new channel configuration Repeat the steps to name a...

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Page 23: ...leSwitch in a Paragon configuration consult your Paragon manual Also be sure to see Appendix E Paragon ConsoleSwitch FAQ NOTE The remaining information in this section only applies to ConsoleSwitch in a standalone operation not using Raritan s Paragon system Users employing ConsoleSwitch in a Paragon solution may disregard the remainder of this section Paragon users access and operate serial devic...

Page 24: ... HotKey Mode Figure 9 Main Menu CHANNEL NAVIGATION DISPLAY CHANNELS From the main menu simply enter the keystrokes D to display a list of device channels A screen resembling the following will appear CH NAME STATUS SCAN CH NAME STATUS SCAN 1 ROUTER T3 1 17 DB2 RS6000 1 2 ROUTER T3 2 1 18 DB2 RS6000 1 2 3 ROUTER T3 3 19 4 WWW1 NETRAT1 20 5 WWW2 NETRAT2 21 6 WWW3 NETRAT3 22 7 23 8 CRM APPSVR1 24 9 C...

Page 25: ...s to monitor activity on all ConsoleSwitch channels through use of the Scan commands which perpetually switches through and displays every channel at a user defined interval To access the list of channel scanning commands press S from the main menu Scan Command Menu S Scan All Channels 1 to 99 secs A Scan Active Channels 1 to 99 secs K Skip Channel in Scan List channel 1 thru 32 L Add Channel to S...

Page 26: ...simply enter R to resume scanning at the previous or default rate VIEWING STORED DATA ConsoleSwitch allows users to troubleshoot problems with attached devices by storing and making available the latest activity that occurred on each port connected to ConsoleSwitch To view stored data you must first select a channel see previous section Channel Navigation and the latest page of data will be displa...

Page 27: ...one line from the total available number of lines on your display The last line at the bottom of the screen is reserved for the SCS command prompt The default value is set at 23 Y Clear Channel Data The Y command is used when the user wishes to clear the entire queue memory for a specified channel This command might be used when the user wishes to start the queue over if the attached devices were ...

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Page 29: ...NDIX A SPECIFICATIONS DIMENSIONS 17 3 W X 6 4 D X 1 75 H 439MM W X 163MM D X 44MM H 1U FORM FACTOR WEIGHT 5 5 LBS 2 5 KG POWER 100V 240V AUTO DETECT 50 60 HZ 5VA PORTS 32 PROTOCOL RS232 CONNECTORS RJ45 DATA BUFFER 10 MEGABIT SHARED ...

Page 30: ...industry standard exists for sending serial data over RJ45 connections For your reference the serial pin out employed by ConsoleSwitch is provided below CONSOLESWITCH RJ45 SERIAL PIN OUT RJ45 Female Function 1 RTS 2 DTR 3 TXD 4 GND 5 SG 6 RXD 7 DSR 8 CTS SCSDB25F NULLING SERIAL ADAPTER PIN OUT RJ45 Female DB25 Female 1 5 2 6 8 3 3 4 1 5 7 6 2 7 20 8 4 SCSDB25M NULLING SERIAL ADAPTER PIN OUT RJ45 F...

Page 31: ... their device to ConsoleSwitch a single custom made UTP Cat 5 cable can connect the device s RJ45 serial port to ConsoleSwitch s RJ45 serial device ports To do so reference the RJ45 pin out diagram above along with the serial RJ45 pin out diagram of your device For your convenience the following cable pin out diagram can be used to make a UTP Cat 5 cable that connects ConsoleSwitch to most Sun and...

Page 32: ...iguration data files However as a precaution many users prefer to backup these configuration files which contain user profile and server name information as an added precaution This step is not a requirement but simply a precaution If you would like to backup your Paragon Configuration files download the Paragon OverView program available from Raritan s web site at http www raritan com 1 Download ...

Page 33: ...aragon User Station as well as to confirm that the firmware upgrade is applicable 8 Click Paragon User Station to begin uploading the firmware Warning During the firmware uploading process it is absolutely essential that neither the User Station nor the computer is turned off and that the serial cable remains firmly connected 9 Click Disable Port and exit Paragon Update 10 After successfully recei...

Page 34: ...s absolutely essential that neither the Matrix Switch UMT8 nor the computer is turned off and that the serial cable remains firmly connected 8 Click Disable Port and exit Paragon Update 9 Using the power switch located at the back of your unit recycle power to your Paragon Matrix Switch Upon resetting the front LCD screen should display the latest firmware version number 10 Repeat steps 1 through ...

Page 35: ...leSwitch SCS232 4 Connect your computer to either User Port of ConsoleSwitch SCS232 For more details see Chapter 4 Installation Connecting User Consoles In particular see Figure 4 User Console Cabling to ConsoleSwitch 5 Launch any standard windows terminal program such as HyperTerminal a standard accessory program distributed with Microsoft Windows 6 Use your terminal program to open a connection ...

Page 36: ...are file on your local computer and select XMODEM in the Protocol drop down box below Click Send to initiate the firmware transfer process 13 Please wait as the file transfer takes place after sending the file you will see the following message Transmit the update file using the XMODEM protocol now FILE TRANSFER SUCCESSFUL Saving Firmware DO NOT TURN OFF 14 ConsoleSwitch SCS232 will proceed to sav...

Page 37: ...nel that is already running SMIT you will need to refresh the screen To refresh your screen in SMIT press the F2 key Note however that AUATC must be programmed to translate the F2 key to the appropriate SMIT command string in order for the refresh command to execute To program AUATC to translate the F2 key correctly follow the instructions below Program F1 to OP CTRL V ESC SHIFT O SHIFT P Program ...

Page 38: ... device manual to determine its console port pin out specification and cross reference the pin out diagram with Appendix B Q When I connect my Hewlett Packard HP 9000 server ConsoleSwitch or Paragon does not recognize the server as being active A Unfortunately the HP9000 server s console port does not assert DSR Therefore it is impossible for ConsoleSwitch to automatically detect if when the serve...

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