Hardware and Connectivity 21
Getting to Know Your Terminal Server
Getting to Know Your Terminal Server
This section describes the hardware components found on your Terminal Server unit.
Overview
All Terminal Servers have the same basic hardware components to allow you to connect to serial
devices, connect to the network, monitor LAN and serial activity, and manage the unit. Below is a list
of these components:
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Serial Port(s)
—Connector(s) that will be used to connect to a serial device.
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Activity
—This LED flashes to indicate LAN activity.
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Link10/100
—This LED indicates the Ethernet connection speed for desktop models:
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Green
—10 Mbits
–
Yellow
—100 Mbits
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Off
—no LAN connection
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Power/Ready
—This LED can cycle through several colors (yellow, green, red) during a boot
process, but should complete with a green light. If the LED is green after power up but continues
to cycle on and off (flashes green), this indicates that the console switch is in the
on
position.
You can learn more about the Power/Ready LED in
Hardware Problems
on page 132
.
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External Power Supply
—This is an external AC power supply.
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Console/Serial Switch
—This switch determines whether serial port 1 functions as a serial port
or a console port.
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Reset
—The inset RESET button will reboot the Terminal Server if pushed in and released
quickly. It will reset the Terminal Server to factory defaults if pushed in and held for more than
three seconds.
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Serial Activity
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Tx
—Flashes with transmit serial activity. There is a Tx LED for each serial port.
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Rx
—Flashes with receive serial activity. There is an Rx LED for each serial port.
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Ethernet
—The Ethernet connector.
Terminal Server 1-Port
This section describes the components found on the Terminal Server 1-Port model.
Serial Activity
Power/Ready
Link/10/100
Activity (LAN)
Serial Port
External Power Supply
Console/Serial
Switch
Reset
Ethernet
