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104 PARAGON II USER GUIDE
Tiered Configurations
Standard Tiering Configurations
Common Guidelines for Tiering Configuration
• Only Paragon I with hardware version HW3 (running Paragon II code) or Paragon II Main
Unit can serve as Base Units (first tier).
• The version of Base Unit(s), both hardware and firmware, must always be later than or at
least equal to the version of other tier devices.
• A maximum of three (3) tiers, including the Base Unit, is permitted.
• Devices that are not Paragon switches but come with two or more channel ports, such as
Raritan MasterConsole, CompuSwitch, Z-CIM, or P2ZCIM, are treated as tier devices. These
devices cannot act as base devices in a Paragon II system and can be connected only to a
Base Unit or to a second-tier Paragon switch.
Note: The easiest way to determine if the hardware version of your Paragon I unit is HW3 is to
check the number of its stacking ports on the rear side. If there is only one stacking port, the
hardware version is HW3.
Guidelines for Single Base Configuration
A single base configuration could
be two-tier or three-tier configuration. It is composed of one
Paragon Main Unit, serving as the Base Unit, and second-tier or even third-tier device(s).
Initialization
− After all devices have been connected, power on the devices from UPPER tier to lower
tier. For example, power on the second-tier device(s) first and then the Base Unit in a
two-tier configuration.
− After initialization, each tier device has an updated database.
Guidelines for changing connections of tier devices:
Example A: Relocating a higher-tier device (refer to dotted line)
1. Disconnect some or all of the user ports on the third-tier unit (UMT-3A) that connect to the
channel ports of the second-tier unit (UMT-2A) and re-connect the user ports to the channel
ports of another second-tier unit (UMT-2B).
2. Recycle the power of all impacted devices. This is recommended to build a clean database for
the Paragon switches. Sequence of recycling power is from the HIGHEST tier (third tier) to
the Base Unit. In our example: UMT-3A → UMT-2A→ UMT-2B → UMT-1.
3. The operation is the same for devices that are not Paragon switches.