Connecting External Components to the System
Connecting and Powering On the System
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Connecting the PC Console
The customer must supply a PC, known as the
system console
or
PC console
. It must
have the following:
One of the following newly installed operating systems: Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7,
Windows XP, or Windows Vista
A serial port or USB-to-serial port converter
TinyTERM
®
terminal emulation software installed. Stratus provides this terminal
emulation software.
See the
OpenVOS System Administration: Configuring a System
(R287) manual for
information about how to configure the emulation software on the PC console.
Perform the following procedure to connect the PC console to the ftServer system.
1. Use the Stratus-provided DB-9 female asynchronous null modem cable (marketing
ID B20253-25) to connect the COM 2 port on the ftServer module to an available
serial port on the PC console (see callouts
1
and
2
in
).
N O T E
If the COM 1 port is not being used for the RSN console
server, you can connect a PC to an available serial port
and use it as a login console.
.
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