User guide

Chapter 8: Ports Menu and Forms 73
8. From the Show Menu pull-down menu, choose Show all options, No, Show data buffering file
only or Show without the erase options.
9. If you checked Buffer to Syslog, enter the IP address of the syslog server in the Syslog
Server field.
10. Choose an option from the Facility Number pull-down menu.
11. Enter the maximum size of the buffer in the Syslog Buffer Size field.
12. Click the radio button next to one of the following options:
a. Buffer Syslog at all times
b. Buffer only when nobody is connected to the port
13. Click Done.
14. Click apply changes.
To configure alarm notifications to be sent based on the type of buffered data, use the Notifications
form, Expert - Administration - Notifications.
Multi User
Under Ports - Physical Ports in Expert Mode, after you select one or more serial ports and click the
Modify Port(s), you can select the Multi User form from the tabbed menu. The Multi User
form appears.
The Multi User form enables you to open more than one session from the same serial port. Multiple
users can connect simultaneously to a serial port. To connect to a port or start a shared session, the
user must have permission to access the port. If you allow multiple sessions through the Allow
Multiple Sessions pull-down menu, the Privilege Users field should be populated with the user
names who have access rights.
Table 8.7: Available Options from the Allow Multiple Sessions Pull-down
Menu Option Description
No Do not allow multiple sessions. Only two users can connect to the same port
simultaneously. One shared session and one normal session are allowed.
Yes (show menu) More than two simultaneous users can connect to the same serial port.
A sniffer menu is presented to the user and they can choose to:
• Open a sniff session.
• Open a read/write session.
• Cancel a connection.
• Send a message to other users connected to the same serial port.
Read/Write (do not
show menu)
Read/write sessions are opened and the sniffer menu won’t be presented.
ReadOnly (do not show menu) Read only sessions are opened and the sniffer menu won’t be presented.