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Chapter 1 Performing General Administrative Tasks 9
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If the pinouts for the serial management port do not correspond with the
pinouts for the RJ-45 ports on the terminal server, you need to make a cross-
over cable that takes each pin on the serial management port to the
corresponding pin in the terminal server’s serial port.
TABLE 1-1
shows the cross-overs that the cable must perform.
2. Open a terminal session on the connecting device, and type:
For example, for a server connected to port 10000 on a terminal server whose IP
address is 192.20.30.10, you would type:
Accessing the System Console Through a TIP
Connection
This procedure assumes that you are accessing the system console by connecting the
serial port of another Sun system to the serial management port of the Sun Fire V245
server (
FIGURE 1-4
).
TABLE 1-1
Pin Crossovers for Connecting to a Typical Terminal Server
Sun Fire V245 Serial Port (RJ-45 Connector) Pin Terminal Server Serial Port Pin
Pin 1 (RTS) Pin 1 (CTS)
Pin 2 (DTR) Pin 2 (DSR)
Pin 3 (TXD) Pin 3 (RXD)
Pin 4 (Signal Ground) Pin 4 (Signal Ground)
Pin 5 (Signal Ground) Pin 5 (Signal Ground)
Pin 6 (RXD) Pin 6 (TXD)
Pin 7 (DSR /DCD) Pin 7 (DTR)
Pin 8 (CTS) Pin 8 (RTS)
% telnet
IP-address-of-terminal-server port-number
% telnet 192.20.30.10 10000