User`s guide

Configure Physical Serial Ports
Chapter 5 Configure Ports 93
Advanced Automatic Detection Settings
The advanced automatic detection settings allow configuring the rules and
execution of the automatic detection feature in more detail than on the Basic
settings.
Note: If any settings on this page are changed from their default values for
Active or Passive automatic detection, the next time you navigate to the Basic
configuration page, the Automatic detection setting will have changed to
Custom.
Advanced Automatic detection settings include:
• Device detection method: Sets the automatic detection method to Active
or Passive, or turns automatic detection Off.
• Initial delay: The time which the initial attempt at automatic detection is
delayed before starting. For Active automatic detection, the serial
parameter detection starts immediately regardless of this value. The
default is 5 minutes.
• Recheck interval: The time interval between automatic detection
attempts. This value must be greater than the value of the Initial delay. The
default is every 1440 minutes.
• Start time: Sets the start time of the first automatic-detection recheck. This
value is not a specific time of day, but rather the time elapsed after the
device is detected.
• Probe string: An ASCII string sent to the device to detect the operating
system and host name in use for the device, when automatic detection is
enabled set to the Active state. To include special characters in the probe
string, see page 96. If the automatic detection state is Passive, scripts are
run instead of sending a probe string; see page 96.
• Detected OS: When the operating system for the device connected to the
serial port is detected, it is displayed in this field.
• Use detected port title: If this option is enabled, the Port title will be set
automatically by the rules defined in the scripts
/tmp/cnf/bin/active_detect or /tmp/cnf/bin/passive_detect script. See
page 96 for information about these scripts.
• Port naming rule: The naming convention for the port when the device is
detected. The default naming convention is $OS$.HOSTNAME$.port$#$.
This convention can be modified as needed.
• Use detected type of console server: If this option is enabled, the
Passport will detect the type of console and set the Type of console
server parameter to MS SAC console or Other automatically. The default
is Enable.