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Chapter 13: Management
13.3.1.2 Web Terminal to Serial Device
To enable the Web Terminal service for each serial port you want to access:
• Select
Serial & Network: Serial Port
and click
Edit
. Ensure the serial port is in Console Server
Mode
• Check
Web Terminal
and click
Apply
Administrator and Users can communicate directly with serial port attached devices from their browser:
• Select the
Serial
tab on the
Manage: Devices
menu
• Under the
Action
column, click the
Web Terminal
icon
to display the Web Terminal, connected directly to the
attached serial device
Note
: The Web Terminal feature was introduced in firmware V3.3.2. Earlier releases had an open source
jcterm
java terminal
applet which could be downloaded into your browser to connect to the Console Server and attached serial port devices.
However
jcterm
had some JRE compatibility issues and is no longer supported
13.3.2 SDTConnector access
Administrator and Users can communicate directly with the Console Server command line and with devices attached to the
Console Server serial ports using SDT Connector and their local tenet client, or using a Web terminal and their browser
• Select
Manage: Terminal
• Click the
Connect to SDT Connector
button. This will to activate the SDT Connector client on the computer you are
browsing and load your local telnet client to connect to the command line or serial port using SSH