User guide

USER GUIDE
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2. Introduction
The Serial Remote Power Switch (SRPS) is a Serial ready device that remotely
controls the AC power of up to 8 connected devices. You can cascade up to 15
Slave units to control a total of 128 devices via a Serial connection.
A user can power on/off, reboot or safe shutdown any server or hardware device
that is physically connected to the SRPS.
3. SRPS components
The SRPS system has the following components:
· SRPS Manager - 115VAC or 230VAC model
· Rack-mount brackets
· 2 AC Power cords
· 1 Serial cable (RS232 - RS232 connectors)
· 8 Serial cables (RJ-11 - RS232 connectors). To perform safe shutdown.
· 1 iLink cable. For SRPS cascading or UPS connection
· 2 Terminators
· Linux safe shutdown utility located on the Marketing & Documentation
CD
You can cascade the system by adding up to 16 SRPS Slave units.
4. The SRPS units
The figures below illustrate the SRPS Manager and Slave front and rear panels.
The Slave is the same as SRPS Manager without the Serial card.
Cascade
Serial
LEDs Power / Link
Power
LED
Remote control
LED
Manual control
button
Circuit
breaker A
On/Off switch
ID number of
cascaded unit
RING ON
& RESET
iLINK
i i i
i
i i
L
N
K
P
W
R
RS232
I
0
A
B C
D E F
H
9
1
10
99
1112
95
1314
67
1516
8
G
ii
RS232 Console Command
Figure 1 SRPS Manager front panel