Configure DSAM Serial Ports

You can rename serial ports and configure their settings.

• To configure DSAM serial ports:

1. Click DSAM Serial Ports, then click the gear icon for the port you want to configure to open the settings.

   

2. In the General section:

   

   • Enter a Name for the port.
   • Check the Current State of the port. Status and Availablity are listed.
3. In the Serial Settings section, check or change the following settings:

   

4. Emulation: Select the terminal emulation mode used to match the serial targets connected to the ports.
   • VT100
   • VT220
   • VT320
   • ANSI
5. Encoding: Select a specific character encoding for this port if needed. Encoding overrides the global setting for the port to whatever value you set.
   • DEFAULT
   • US-ASCII
   • 8-BIT ASCII
   • ISO-8859-1
   • ISO-8859-15
   • UTF-8
   • Shift-JIS
   • EUC-JP
   • EUC-CN
   • EUC-KR
6. Equipment Type: Indicate whether you want the Dominion KX IV–101 to automatically detect a physical connection to the target.
   • Default is Auto Detection.
   • Force DTE causes Dominion KX IV–101 to act as a piece of data terminal detection equipment to detect targets connected to it.
   • Force DCE causes Dominion KX IV–101 to act as a piece of data communications equipment to detect equipment connected to it.

     Note: If the target has the ability to autodetect either DTE or DCE, you must select either Force DTE or Force DCE for the port. Dominion KX IV–101 does not support autodetection of both DCE and DTE on the same port.

7. Bits Per Second (BPS): Select a value.
   • BPS options: 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400
8. Parity/Bits: Select a value.
9. Flow Control: Select a value.
10. Stop Bits: Select a value.
11. Multiple Writers: Select an option to allow single or multiple writers on a port at one time.
12. Port Keywords: When configured, port keywords appear here. Go to Device Settings > Serial Port Keyword List to add port keywords.
13. Escape Mode: The escape sequence affects only the CLI. When entering escape mode, the user is given a menu of commands that can be performed (for example, gethistory, view commands, and so on), a command to return to the port session, and a command to exit the port connection. Default is Control.
    • None
    • Control
14. Escape Character: The default for the Dominion KX IV–101 is ] (closed bracket).

    Raritan recommends that you do not use [ or Ctrl-[. Either of these may cause unintended commands, such as invoking the Escape Command unintentionally. This key sequence is also triggered by the arrow keys on the keyboard.

15. Char Delay: To specify the delay between when individual characters are sent via the port, enter the time in milliseconds.
16. Line Delay: To specify the delay between when lines of text are sent via the port, enter it in the field.
17. Send Break Duration: Entering the send break time in milliseconds. Range is from 0ms - 1000ms.
18. Always Active: Select the checkbox if you want to log activities coming into a port even if no user is connected.

    The default option is to not maintain port access without a connected user, which means ignore data coming into a port when no user is connected.

    This option is for port data logs.

    Note: When no users are logged into a port session, port traffic, by default, is discarded .

19. Exit Command: Type a command, such as logout, to be sent to your system when a user with write permission disconnects from the port.

    This ensures that the user's session on the target machine is closed, but it is not imperative to have an Exit command configured on a port.

20. Click Save.