Setup guide

6-21Console Cabling Requirements
Console Concentrator Configuration Procedure
Before you start, note that:
• The Console Concentrator (CS/2600) is configured through the ASCII console (BQ306).
The ASCII console has to be connected to the J0 port of the CS/2600 server, to set the
console baud rate to 9600. However, the Console Concentrator (CS/2600) can also be
configured through the PowerConsole provided that it is connected to the J0 port instead
of the ASCII console.
• You need a floppy diskette (double face and double intensity 3”1/2) to copy the original
3Com diskette.
The configuration of CS/2600 described here is done using the ASCII console. When using
the PowerConsole instead of the ASCII console, the configuration is made using an AIX
window (dtterm or aixterm, or xterm).
1. Serial Link Console – CS2600 Configuration:
a. Only if Powerconsole is used
– Boot the PowerConsole workstation in normal mode.
– Create the ttyx device using smit tty menus (log in as root user), relative to the link
established between the PowerConsole (the RS232 adapter name and the port used
in the PowerConsole side), and the CS2600 server port J0.
b. Setup this device with the following characteristics:
baud rate = 9600
bits = 8
bit stop = 1
parity = non
According to the terminal type, the following need also to be set (Not the case for a BQ306)
DTR = ignored
Duplex = Full
Echo = OFF
Only if a Powerconsole is used:
Update the file /etc/uucp/Devices by adding the following line after the commented lines as
below:
Direct ttyx –9600 direct
where ttyx is the device created with smit in the above step.
To make a serial RS232 connection between the PowerConsole and the J0 port of the
CS2600 server, key in the command:
cu –l ttyx
where ttyx is the device created with smit in the above step.
2. CS/2600 booting:
a. Insert the floppy diskette referenced as:
83–0377–004 (CS/2600 SW/2500–TO–3270–LOCAL)
in the floppy driver of the CS/2600 terminal server.
b. Power–on the CS/2600 terminal server
c. Wait until the end of auto–self testing phase (yellow led called as self test turns off)
d. Wait a few more seconds until the floppy led is switch off