Communications Module Configuration


The Communications Module Configuration screen provides information on configuration settings for the module including:

Note: Radius Details, Firewall Details and Partition Details are applicable for SSU 2000 Radius enabled devices

Each field is described in the table below.

Click the Edit button in each section to set the parameters.

Field / Section

Description

Alarm Elevation Time

The Alarm Elevation Time setting allows the alarm severity to increase over a specified period of time.

TCP / IP

The TCP/IP section displays details associated with a TCP/IP connection.

Host IP

Provides current Internet Protocol (IP) address information

Gateway

Change gateway address

Mask

Change the subnet mask

Mac

Communication Mac Address

Telnet Timeout

Time before Telnet session terminates

TL1 Timeout

Time before TL1 session terminates

Keep Alive

User defined time in which an event is generated by the SSU-2000 to alert the upstream support system that the SSU-2000 and associated communication path is functional

Serial Communication

The Serial Communication section displays details associated with a serial connection.

Baud Rate

This field indicates the connection baud rate. From the drop-down menu, select from the following options: 1200 bps, 2400 bps, 4800 bps, 9600 bps, or 19,200 bps. The default is 9600 bps.

Echo

Sets echo to full or half duplex (On or Off)

EOL

Sets end of line characters sent by the Communication module. Options are CR, LF, or CRLF.

Mode

Sets mode of communication to either ASCII or TL1

Timeout

This alarm indicates the status of the serial peripheral interface hardware (SPI watchdog timeout) for the communications module. Status messages OK or Timeout are returned.

TCP/IP Ping

TCP/IP Ping allows you to ping a remote host via TCP/IP to verify that the SSU-2000 is communicating over a network.

TCP/IP Address

Specifies the host address, given in the ###.###.###.### format, where ### is a number between 0 and 255.

Result

Displays the response, either OK or FAIL.

Radius DetailsRadius Details

The Radius Details section displays details associated with Radius Configuration (Applicable only for SSU 2000 Linux Communication Module Devices).

IP

IP Address of the Radius Server

Status

Sate of the Radius Server

Firewall Details

The Firewall Details section displays details associated with Firewall Settings (Applicable only for SSU 2000 Linux Communication Module Devices).

FTP

FTP state of the Linux IMC Card

ICMP

ICMP state of the Linux IMC Card

Telnet

Telnet state of the Linux IMC Card

SFTP

SFTP state of the Linux IMC Card

RADIUS

RADIUS state of the Linux IMC Card

SSH

SSH state of the Linux IMC Card

TFTP

TFTP state of the Linux IMC Card

SNMP

SNMP state of the Linux IMC Card

Partition Details

The Partition Details section displays details associated with Partition details (Applicable only for SSU 2000 Linux Communication Module devices).

Current Partition

The Partition where the software is currently running

Next Reboot Partition

The Partition where the module boots up

Partition-0 Rev

Firmware revision of the image on Partition-0

Partition-1 Rev

Firmware revision of the image on Partition-1

Partition-0 Date

Date on which image in loaded on Partition-0

Partition-1 Date

Date on which image in loaded on Partition-1