PLANET XGS3-24042 - Manual (Page 6)

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4. Terminal Setup
To configure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or
notebook computer and to serial (console) port of the XGS3 Managed Switch. The
console port of the Managed Switch is DCE already, so that you can connect the
console port directly through PC without the need of Null Modem.
RJ-45 Type Serial Port
9600,8,n,1
XGS3 Layer 3
Managed Switch
RJ-45 DB9 RS-232 cable
Serial Port
PC / Workstation with
Terminal emulation software
Figure 4-1 XGS3 Managed Switch Console connection
A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the XGS3
Managed Switch. Windows’ Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. The
Hyper Terminal can be accessed from the Start menu.
1. Click START menu, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper Terminal.
2. Type a name for opening Hyper Terminal, such as “COM1_9600”.
3. When the following screen appears, make sure that the COM port should be
configured as:
Baud : 9600 l
Parity: None l
Data bits : 8 l
Stop bits : 1 l
Flow Control: None l
Figure 4-2 Hyper Terminal COM port configuration