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October, 1998
GRF 400/1600 Getting Started - 1.4 Update 2
Rack Mount and Power On Procedures
Attaching a VT-100 terminal
Attaching a VT-100 terminal
You must connect the VT-100 compatible terminal to the control board’s RS-232 serial port
BEFORE you power on the GRF. After the system boots, you will enter system IP and host
name configuration information in the first time power on script from the terminal. This task is
described in chapter 4.
You can stay at the terminal to perform the rest of the system configuration or you can connect
the GRF to the administrative Ethernet LAN and continue configuration from there. After the
GRF can be accessed from the administrative Ethernet, the serial connection is no longer
required.
Figure 3-3. Connectors on a control board
As shown in Figure 3-10, the control board provides multiple connection sites. Use a null
modem cable (console cross-over cable) to attach the terminal to the RS-232 serial connector
site. (A GRF 400 control board is shown here, the GRF 1600 serial port is the same.)
VT-100 terminal settings
Terminal settings are 9600 bits/second, 8-bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
Laptop PC
You can attach a laptop PC that meets the following requirements:
–
Windows 3.11 or Windows/NT operating system
–
a VT 100 terminal emulation program set to the proper communication port
–
settings of 9600 bits/second, 8-bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
What to do next...
With the terminal attached to the serial port, go on to “Powering on the GRF 400.”
LINK OK
RCV A
C
T
XMT A
C
T
PO
WER
F
A
UL
T
RESET
ST
A
TUS
COM BU
S
A
CTIVE
RECEIVE
TRANSMIT
PS2-OK
PS1-OK
100/10
ETHERNET
100
PCMCIA
B A
RS232
COM1
to external LAN
to VT-100
PCMCIA slots A and B
Speaker
Reset button
