User guide

Access Method
74 BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server
all.ipno This is the default IP address of the BLACK BOX ® Advanced
Console Server's serial ports. Any host can access a port using its IP
address as long as a path to the address exists in the host's routing
table. An example value would be 192.168.1.101+. The “+”
indicates that the first port should be addressed as 192.168.1.101
and the following ports should have consecutive values.
all.socket_port In the CAS profile, this defines an alternative labeling system for the
BLACK BOX ® Advanced Console Server ports. An example value
would be 7001+. The “+” after the numerical value causes the serial
interfaces to be numbered consecutively. In this example, serial
interface 1 is assigned the port value 7001, serial interface 2 is
assigned the port value 7002, etc. One example on how this could
be used is in the case of all.protocol or s<n>.protocol socket_ssh
and the port value (7001, 7002, etc), if supplied by the ssh client
like username:port value, the ssh client will be directly connected
with the serial interface.
all.protocol The possible protocols are telnet, ssh1/ssh2 or raw data:
socket_server = telnet protocol,
socket_ssh = ssh1/ssh2 protocol,
raw_data = used to exchange data in transparent mode. Raw_data
is similar to socket_server mode but without telnet negotiation
breaks to serial ports.
An example value would be socket_server.
all.users Restricts access to ports by user name (only the users listed can
access the port or, using the character “!,” all but the users listed can
access the port.) A single comma and spaces/tabs may be used
between names. A comma may not appear between the “!” and the
first user name. The users may be local, Radius or TacacsPlus. User
groups (defined with the parameter conf.group) can be used in
combination with user names in the parameter list. Notice that
these are common users, not administrators. Example: all.users !
joe, mark, user_group. In this example, the users joe, mark, and
members of user_group cannot access the port.