Instruction manual

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Use the serial port
To connect to a terminal emulation program or
Telnet to manage the FastStream SC 5700, use the
serial port.
1 Connect a cable from FastStream SC 5700 RS-
232 serial port or header to the serial (COM)
port on a personal computer.
2 Turn on the FastStream SC 5700.
3 Start a terminal emulation program on the
personal computer, and use it to connect to the
FastStream SC 5700. For example, if you are
using HyperTerminal on a computer running a
Windows operating system,
a. Type FastStream 5700 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: on
f. Click OK.
4 After you connect to the FastStream SC 5700,
start-up messages are displayed. The last line
in the start-up message sequence is Ready.
Make adjustments to the FastStream SC 5700
using the Command Line Interface as described
in
CLI provides an ASCII-based interface on
page iii of the Appendix.
Note
In serial port sessions, there is no prompt on
the line below the word
Ready . Begin typing
commands in the blank line where the cursor
is resting. No user name or password is
required for serial port access.
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 Designing RAID groups on
page i of the Appendix.
1 Connect to the FastStream SC 5700 from a
computer on the same Ethernet network.
2 Start a Telnet session.
Note
There is more than one way to connect to the
FastStream SC 5700 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
FastStream SC 5700.
telnet > open x.x.x.x
4 If you have to specify a port type, type in the
port type “telnet” and the terminal type “SC100”.
port type: telnet
terminal type: SC100
5 Type in 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 5.