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ATTO Technology Inc. FibreBridge Installation and Operation Manual
7.0 Interface options
Alternative methods to using the ATTO ExpressNAV interface may be used to manage the FibreBridge.
ATTO ExpressNAV is the recommended
interface.
Use the serial port or header
1 Connect a cable from FibreBridge RS-232
serial port or header to the serial (COM) port on
a personal computer.
2 Turn on the FibreBridge.
3 Start a terminal emulation program on the
personal computer, and use it to connect to the
FibreBridge. For example, if you are using
HyperTerminal on a computer running a
Windows operating system,
a. Type
FibreBridge in the New Connection
dialog box.
b. Click
OK.
c. In the
Connect To dialog box, for the
Connect using field select the COM port
number to which your serial cable is
connected.
d. Click
OK.
e. In the COM Properties dialog box select the
following values:
Bits per second: 115200
Data Bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop Bits: 1
Flow Control: None
Terminal type: ASCII
Echo: off
f. Click
OK.
4 After you connect to the FibreBridge, start-up
messages are displayed. These messages are
only displayed at start-up. The last line in the
start-up message sequence is
Ready. See the
example in Exhibit 7.0-1 on page 32.
5 To verify that you have connected successfully,
type
help after the Ready prompt and press
Enter.
If a list of all available commands does not
appear on the screen, review the steps in this
section, check the cable, or contact service
personnel until the problem is solved.
If you have difficulty using the serial port, verify
that you have the correct settings and that your
serial cable is less then two meters in length.
Use Telnet
Up to three Telnet sessions can be conducted
simultaneously. A serial port session can use the
CLI while Telnet sessions are open. Whichever
session issues the first “set” CLI command can
continue to issue set commands, while the other
sessions can only issue “get” commands or
display information. Once a connection is
established, refer to CLI provides ASCII-based
interface on page ii of the Appendix.
1 Connect to the FibreBridge from a computer on
the same Ethernet network.
2 Start a Telnet session.
Note
There is more than one way to connect to the
FibreBridge using a telnet program.Your telnet
program may operate differently than in the
following instructions.
3 At the Telnet prompt, issue the open command
where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the
FibreBridge.
telnet > open x.x.x.x
4 If you have to specify a port type, enter the port
type
telnet and the terminal type vt100.
port type: telnet
terminal type: vt100
5 Enter the default values for the user name,
root, and the password, Password, if you did
not set new values in
Discover the IP address
on page 13.