User guide

Appendix J - Examples for Config Testing
422 BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server
Step 6: Activate the changes.
Now continue on to Task 5: Activate the changes
through Task 8: Reboot the BLACK
BOX ® Advanced Console Server listed in Chapter 2 - Installation, Configuration, and
Usage.
Terminal Server
The BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server provides features for out-of-band management
via the configuration of terminal ports. All ports can be configured as terminal ports. This
allows a terminal user to access a server on the LAN.
Figure 47: Terminal Server diagram
The terminal can be either a dumb terminal or a terminal emulation program on a PC.
Note: It is possible to access the serial ports from Microsoft stations using some
off-the-shelf packages. Although Black Box is not liable for those packages,
successful tests were done using at least one of them. From the application’s
viewpoint running on a Microsoft station, the remote serial port works like a
regular COM port. All the I/O with the serial device attached to the
Advanced Secure Console Port Server is done through socket connections
opened by these packages and a COM port is emulated to the application.
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