Preface
ROS® v3.11User Guide 9 RMC30
Preface
This manual contains instructions, examples, guidelines, and general theory on how to use
the Rugged Operating System (ROS®) management software.
Supported Platforms
ROS®  is  designed  to  work  on  many  RuggedCom  product  hardware  platforms,  ensuring
a consistent  user  experience  when  migrating  from  one product  model  to  another.  ROS®
supports the following RuggedCom products:
• RuggedSwitch® i800, i801, i802, and i803
• RuggedSwitch® RS8000 and RS1600
• RuggedSwitch® RS900/RS930 with both ‘L’ (EoVDSL) and ‘W’ (WLAN) port variants
• RuggedSwitch® RS900GP
• RuggedSwitch® RS900G/RS940G with Gigabit
• RuggedSwitch® RS950G
• RuggedSwitch® RS969/M969 waterproof with Gigabit
• RuggedSwitch® RSG2100/M2100, RSG2200/M2200, and RSG2300 modular switches with
Gigabit Ethernet
• RuggedSwitch®  RSG2288  modular  switch  with  Gigabit  Ethernet,  PTP  (Precision  Time
Protocol - IEEE 1588), GPS, and IRIG-B support
• RuggedServer™ RS416, RS910 and RS920 modular serial servers
• RuggedServer™ RS416v2 modular serial server with PTP and IRIG-B support
• RuggedServer™ RS400
• RuggedMC™ Media Converters RMC30 and RP110
Each product model has a subset of the entire ROS® feature set. This manual is intended for
use with the RMC30 product family and has been streamlined to only describe the relevant
features.
Who Should Use This User Guide
This guide is to be used by network technical support personnel who are familiar with the
operation of networks. Others who might find the book useful are network and system planners,
system programmers and line technicians.
How Chapters are organized
The index of this guide has been prepared with:
• Entries to each of the “Features” sections of the manual
• Entries to each of the “Troubleshooting” sections of the manual (located at the end of each
chapter)
• Entries to each of the Menus, organized by name
Document Conventions
This publication uses the following conventions: