Tripp Lite B092-016 - Configure the Slaves and Their Serial Ports; Managing the Slaves

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Chapter 4: Serial Port, Device and User Configuration
4.6.3 Configure the slaves and their serial ports
You can now begin setting up the Slaves and configuring Slave serial ports from the Master Console Server:
• SelectSerial & Network: Cascaded PortsontheMaster’sManagementConsole:
• ToaddclusteringsupportselectAdd Slave
Note: You will be prevented from adding any Slaves until you have automatically or manually generated SSH keys
To define and configure a Slave:
• Entertheremote IP Address (orDNSName)fortheSlaveConsoleServer
• EnterabriefDescription and a short LabelfortheSlave(useaconventionherethatenableseffectivemanagementof
largenetworksofclusteredConsoleServersandtheconnecteddevices)
• EnterthefullnumberofserialportsontheSlaveunitinNumber of Ports
• ClickApply. This will establish the SSH tunnel between the Master and the new Slave
The Serial & Network: Cascaded Ports menu displays all the Slaves and the port numbers that have been allocated on the
Master.IftheMasterConsoleServerhas16portsofitsownthenports1-16arepre-allocatedtotheMaster,sotherst
Slave added will be assigned port number 17 onwards.
OnceyouhaveaddedalltheSlaveConsoleServers,theSlaveserialportsandtheconnecteddevicesarecongurableand
accessiblefromtheMaster’sManagementConsolemenu;andaccessiblethroughtheMaster’sIPaddresse.g.
• SelecttheappropriateSerial & Network: Serial Port and Edit to configure the serial ports on the Slave
• SelecttheappropriateSerial & Network: Users & Groups to add new users with access privileges to the Slave serial
ports(ortoextendexistingusersaccessprivileges)
• SelecttheappropriateSerial & Network: Trusted Networks to specify network addresses that can access nominated
Slave serial ports
• SelecttheappropriateAlerts & Logging: AlertstocongureSlaveportConnection,StateChangeorPatternMatchalerts
• ThecongurationchangesmadeontheMasterarepropagatedouttoalltheSlaveswhenyouclickApply.
4.6.4 Managing the slaves
The Master is in control of the Slave serial ports. So for example if change a User access privileges or edit any serial
portsettingontheMaster,theupdatedcongurationleswillbesentouttoeachSlaveinparallel.EachSlavewillthen
automaticallymakechangestotheirlocalcongurations(andonlymakethosechangesthatrelatetoitsparticularserial
ports).
YoucanstillusethelocalSlaveManagementConsoletochangethesettingsonanySlaveserialport(suchasalterthebaud
rates).HoweverthesechangeswillbeoverwrittennexttimetheMastersendsoutacongurationleupdate.
AlsowhiletheMasterisincontrolofallSlaveserialportrelatedfunctions,itisnotmasterovertheSlavenetworkhost
connections or over the Slave Console Server system itself.
SoSlavefunctionssuchasIP,SMTP&SNMPSettings,Date&Time,DHCPservermustbemanagedbyaccessingeachSlave
directly and these functions are not over written when configuration changes are propagated from the Master. Similarly the
SlavesNetworkHostandIPMIsettingshavetobeconguredateachSlave.
AlsotheMaster’sManagementConsoleprovidesaconsolidatedviewofthesettingsforitsownandalltheSlave’sserialports,
however the Master does not provide a fully consolidated view. For example if you want to find out who's logged in to cascaded
serialportsfromthemaster,you’llseethatStatus: Active UsersonlydisplaysthoseusersactiveontheMaster’sports,soyou
may need to write custom scripts to provide this view. This is covered in Chapter 11.