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4.6.2  Manually generate and upload SSH keys
Alternately if you have a RSA or DSA key pair you can manually upload th\
em to the Master and Slave Console Servers. 
Note: If you do not already have RSA or DSA key pair and you do not wish to use you will need to create a key pair\
 using ssh-
keygen, PuTTYgen or a similar tool as detailed in Chapter 15.6
To manually upload the key public and private key pair to the Master Cons\
ole Server: 
• Select...

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4.6.3  Configure the slaves and their serial ports
You can now begin setting up the Slaves and configuring Slave serial po\
rts 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...

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4.7 Serial Port Redirection 
Tripp Lite’s VirtualPort software delivers the virtual serial port technology your Windows applications need to open remote serial 
ports and read the data from serial devices that are connected to your C\
onsole Server.   
 
VirtualPort is supplied with each B096-016 / B096-032 / B096-048 Console Server Man\
agement Switch or B092-016 
Console Server with PowerAlert or B095-003-1E-M / B095-004-1E Console Server. 
You...

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4.7.2  Configure the VirtualPort client
Creating the VirtualPort client connection will initiate a virtual serial port data redirecti\
on to the remote Console Server using 
TCP/IP protocol
•  Click on Add Ports
•  Specify a name to identify this connection in the "Server Description " \
tab 
 
•  Enter the Console Server's IP address (or network name)
•  Enter the Server TCP Port number that matches the port you have configured for the...

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•  To configure a COM port you have created simply click on the desired CO\
Mx label in the left hand menu tree
•  In the Properties window you can edit the IP Address or TCP Port to be used to connect to that COM port
•  You can then configure the COM port in the Connection and Advanced wind\
ows:
 
• Connect at system startup—When enabled VirtualPort will try to connect to the Console Server when the VirtualPort 
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• Check Receive DSR/DCD/CTS changes if the flow control signal status from the physical serial port on Co\
nsole Server is to 
be reflected back to the Windows COM port driver (as some serial communications applications pref\
er to run without any 
hardware flow control i.e. in “two wire” mode) 
• The Propagate local port changes allows complete serial device control by the Windows application so it operates exactly 
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4.8 Managed Devices 
Managed Devices presents a consolidated view of all the connections to a\
 device that can be accessed and monitored through 
the Console Server. 
To view the connections to the devices:
• Select Serial&Network: Managed Devices 
This will display all the Managed Device with their Description/Notes an\
d lists of all the configured Connections:
• Serial Port # (if serially connected) or 
• USB (if USB connected)
• IP Address (if...

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To add a new serially connected Managed Device:
•  Configure the serial port using the Serial&Network:  Serial Port menu (refer Section 4.1 -Configure Serial Port)
• Select Serial&Network: Managed Devices and click Add Device 
•  Enter a Device Name and Description for the Managed Device
• Click Add Connection and select Serial and the Port that connects to the Managed Device 
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• Select the Authentication Method to be used, either RSA digital signatures or a Shared secret (PSK) 
  o If you select RSA you will asked to click here to generate keys. This will generate an RSA public key for the  
    console server (the Left Public Key).  You will need to find out the key to be used on the remote gateway, then cut  
   and paste it into the Right Public Key  
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• In Right Address enter the public IP or DNS address of the remote end of the tunnel (on\
ly if the remote end has a static 
or dyndns address). Otherwise leave this blank 
• If the VPN gateway is serving as a VPN gateway to a local subnet (e.g. \
the Console Server has a Management LAN 
configured) enter the private subnet details in Left Subnet. Use the CIDR notation (where the IP address number is 
followed by a slash and the number of ‘one’...