NetBotz 300-500 Series | How to serially connect to appliances

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Issue:
Serial Terminal Connection Parameters for NetBotz 300-500 Series

Product Line:
NetBotz Wall Appliance: 355/356 (NBWL0355/6) & 455/456 (NBWL0455/6)
NetBotz Rack Appliance: 450/451 (NBRK0450/1), 550 (NBRK0550), & 570 (NBRK0570)

Environment:
Versions as described below
Terminal emulation

Cause:
Terminal emulation (ie. Hyper-Terminal) configuration for communications with NetBotz appliances.

Resolution:

Terminal emulation is often used for initial IP configuration on NetBotz appliances. Hyper-terminal or Putty are often used for this configuration.

Serial Terminal Connection Parameters for all NetBotz Appliances

When connecting to a Netbotz appliance or a NetBotz Central via a serial cable, the terminal settings must be set to:

38400 and 8-N-1

When connecting to a models 300, 303, 310, or 400, you must use a standard serial cable, such as the kind used to connect a modem to a PC.

When connecting to models 320, 420 or 500, you must use a NULL modem cable.

When connecting to models 355, 455, 550, 570 or similar version 3 Netbotz, you must use a USB A-B cable.

The NetBotz 200 uses a Null Modem cable and a baud rate of 9600.

NOTE: When connecting to a NetBotz Central, you must use a NULL modem cable.