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138 PARAGON II USER GUIDE
Installing AUATC
1. Run an appropriate cable from AUATC’s DB25 female DTE connector to the device’s serial
port. The type of cable will depend on what type of connector the port is and whether it’s
pinned as DTE (for a data source/destination such as a server) or DCE (for a data-
communicating device such as a modem). Here are the product codes of some cables we
recommend if the port is:
a. DB9 male DTE (most PCs, some routers, etc.)
b. DB25 male DTE (some older PCs, routers, etc.)
c. DB25 female DCE (many external modems, etc.)
If the device has some other type of serial port, call Raritan Technical Support.
2. If you need temporary “crash cart” access or permanent local control, you can set up a “local
user station” (consisting of a keyboard and VGA monitor only) to AUATC. The keyboard
can be either PS/2 or Sun type; a Sun keyboard will require a special setting in the Setup
Screen.
To set up a “local user station,” plug a PS/2 keyboard into AUATC’s 6-pin mini-DIN
connector, or a Sun keyboard into its 8-pin mini-DIN connector. Then plug a VGA monitor
into AUATC’s HD15 connector.
Note: This local station will contend for keyboard control with the remote user stations
attached to Paragon user stations based on a fixed one-second activity timeout. As soon as
there has been no keyboard activity from the local station for one second, a remote station
can take keyboard control, and vice versa.
3. Plug in and turn on the device. If possible, set it to communicate at 9600 bps, 8 data bits, no
parity, and 1 stop bit. (These don’t have to be the permanent serial settings, but the device
must be set this way to establish initial communication with AUATC; later you can configure
both the device and AUATC to better settings. If the device can’t be configured for these
settings, you’ll need to temporarily attach a server or other device that can be.)
4. Plug AUATC’s power supply into AUATC and a working AC outlet. If AUATC is installed
and operating properly, AUATC’s green LED will start blinking: once per second while the
CIM is idle, more quickly while it’s passing data in either direction.
5. Connect one end of a CAT5 UTP cable to the RJ45 port on AUATC. Connect the other end
of the cable to RJ45 channel port #1 on the back of one of your Paragon Base Units, or to the
RJ45 port on the back of a user station if you want Direct Mode access (see Appendix B:
User Station Direct Mode for additional inform
ation).
Operating a Serial CIM
P2CIM-SER or P2CIM-SER-EU
These CIMs provide different communication modes for you to operate the ASCII serial device.
• On Line -- Communicating with an ASCII device. The terminal screen area displays the
interactions with the ASCII device.
• Help -- Help screen displayed (Pressing Alt+F1 displays the Help screen.)
• Set Up -- Setup screen displayed. (Pressing Alt+F2 or Alt+F3 enters set-up mode.)
• Buffer Edit -- Buffer displayed. (Pressing Alt+F4 enters buffer review/edit mode.)
Raritan provides a detailed user guide about the operation and configuration of the two CIMs.
Please see Paragon and Dominion KX Serial Device CIM User Guide for additional
information. This user guide can be downloaded from Raritan’s Website:
http://www.raritan.com/_downloads/pdfs/products/P2CIM-SER%2
0User%20Guide.pdf.