User`s guide

Chapter 2

Getting Started

This chapter describes the following procedures:

❑ Connecting a terminal to the hub for local management

❑ Initial and optional configurations

❑ Starting an Omega session for initial setup

❑ Using the Omega menus

❑ Connecting to remote TurboStack hubs for remote management

Connecting a Terminal

Before proceeding, make sure you have installed the hub by following the

procedures in the TurboStack Ethernet Hubs with Management

Installation Manual and that the hub is functioning as a repeater.

Terminal connection for a local or standalone management involves the

following preliminary set-up steps:

1. Connect the serial port of your terminal or PC to the RS-232 console

port on the front of the hub. For a PC connection, use a straight-

through 9-pin cable.

2. Turn on your terminal or PC and call up the terminal emulator

program.

3. Check your screen display make sure the emulation options are set as

follows:

❑ Data bits: 8

❑ Stop bits: 1

❑ Parity: 0

❑ Connector: Com1/Com2 (PC/terminal dependent)

The Omega program supports automatic baud rate detection, so

you do not have to configure baud rate on the terminal side.