Product specifications

CDD-880 Multi Receiver Router Revision 1
Serial-based Remote Product Management MN-CDD880
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Figure 6-1. CDD-880 Serial Interface Example
CDD‐880SerialRemoteProductManagementisavailablethroughtheEIA‐232operationalinterface,wherethe‘Controller’device(the
user PC or an ASCII dumb terminal) is connecte d directly to the ‘Target’ device (the CDD‐880 Multi Receiver Router, via its DB‐9M
‘CONSOLE’port).Thisconnectionmakespossibleser
ialremotemonitorandcontrol(M&C)oftheCDD‐880throughitsSerialCommand
LineInterface(CLI).
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ThroughthisEIA‐232connection(forthecontrolofasingledevice),dataistransmittedinasynchronousserialform,usingASCIIcharacters.
Controlandstatus informationistransmittedinpacketsofvariable length inacc
ordancewiththe structureandprotocoldefinedlaterin
thischapter.
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AccesstotheCLIisaccomplishedwithauser‐suppliedterminalemulatorprogramsuchasTeraTermorHyperTerminal.Usethisutility
programtofirstconfigureserialportcommunicationandterminaldisplayoperation:
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• 38400bps(BaudRate) • 8Da
taBits • 1StopBit
• Parity=NO • PortFlowControl=NONE • DisplayNewlineRx/Tx:CR
• LocalEcho=OFF
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Whentheuser‐suppliedterminalemul atorprogramisconfiguredcorrectly,uponpower‐upoftheCDD‐880,theCLIInfoScreenappears,
followed by the CLI co
mmand prompt CDD‐880>. From here, type “help[cr]” or “?[cr]” (without the quotes) to display the CDD‐880
availablecommandsandqueries,andtoreviewinstructionsforusingtheinterface.