Can I connect a console to a mux ??

[fly_fisher]

Hi you all ????

Can I connect a console directly to a MUX ?
or it depends on the model of mux ?

Thank you very much for your help.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Never tried it but Mux is serial and terminal is serial so set the speeds parity etc to match.

Your question said "Console" and to be pedantic no! As the mux card would not be enabled as the server carried out its boot.


Paula

[David Burgess]

You can. One of the ports on the modem distribution panel (MDP) should be mapped to the console port. Off the top of my head I can't remember which one.

HTH,

Dave.

[Ruediger Noack · Accepted solution]

All boxes I knew (some years ago) had connected the serial console (terminal) on the first mux port (port 0).

Ruediger

[John Carr_2]

Hi

I have a MDP RS 232-C FULL MODEM P/N 5062-3054 which allows port 0 to be used for console.

cheers
JOhn.

[fly_fisher]

sorry about my ignorance, but how can I map the port in the MUX... Is it done via SW or HW ?

Thank you very much for all your answers.
Regards.

[David Burgess]

Once you plug the mux in port 0 will automatically be the console port. There is no configuration to do.

Well you may have to run insf to create the device files for the mux.

Regards,

Dave.

[fly_fisher]

John, I would like to give you ten points, but because of a problem with the refresh of the previous pages I can't. Please, post a new answer to provide you the 10 points :)

[John Carr_2]

Hi

as David said all you should possibly need to do is an
insf -e

cheers
John.