Serial Port Profiles
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Terminal Server User Guide, Version 3.3
Adding/Editing Additional COMredirect Hosts
You can define a list of hosts that the serial device will communicate to through COMredirect Lite or
a primary/backup host.
Configure the following parameters:
Adding/Editing a Multihost Entry
When you click the
Add
or
Edit
button, the Host Entry window appears. The hosts in the multihost
list must already be defined. If you add a host that was defined with its fully qualified domain name
(FQDN), it must be resolvable by your configured DNS server.
Configure the following parameters:
Define additional
hosts to connect to
When this option is enabled, you can define up to 49 hosts that the serial device
connected to this serial port will attempt communicate to. With this mode of
operation, the Terminal Server will connect to multiple hosts simultaneously.
Default:
Enabled
Add Button
Click the
Add
button to add a host to the list of hosts that will be receiving
communication from the serial device connected to the Terminal Server.
See
Adding/Editing a Multihost Entry
on page 68
for more information.
Edit Button
Highlight an existing host and click the
Edit
button to edit a host in the list of
hosts that will be receiving communication from the serial device connected to
the Terminal Server.
Delete Button
Highlight an existing host and click the
Edit
button to edit a host in the list of
hosts that will be receiving communication from the serial device connected to
the Terminal Server.
Define a primary
host and backup...
When this option is enabled, you need to define a primary host that the serial
device connected to this serial port will communicate to and a backup host, in
the event that the Terminal Server looses communication to the primary host.
The Terminal Server will first establish a connection to the primary host.
Should the connection to the primary host be lost (or never established), the
Terminal Server will establish a connection the backup host. Once connected to
the backup, the Terminal Server will attempt to re-establish a connection to the
Primary host, once this is successfully done, it gracefully shuts down the
backup connection.
Default:
Disabled
Primary Host
Specify a preconfigured host that the serial device will communicate to through
the Terminal Server.
Default:
None
TCP Port
Specify the TCP port that the Terminal Server will use to communicate to the
Primary Host
.
Default:
0
Backup Host
Specify a preconfigured host that the serial device will communicate to through
the Terminal Server if the Terminal Server cannot communicate with the
Primary Host
.
Default:
None
TCP Port
Specify the TCP port that the Terminal Server will use to communicate to the
Backup Host
.
Default:
10000
