Avocent
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Universal Management
Gateway Appliance
Quick Installation Guide
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Technical Support.
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SECURITY WARNING
The Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway appliance provides extensive access to attached devices. Care must be taken to avoid compromising your security policies.
The Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway appliance ships with the following default settings:
• DHCP, SSH v2, and HTTPS re-enabled.
• All autosensing ports are enabled.
• Ethernet and CLI Setup ports are enabled.
The following accounts exist by default.
The username is also the default password for the account.
– admin
– operator
– user
• Shell access for admin is enabled.
Avocent strongly recommends you change the default password and select a Security
Profile after initial setup.
Please consult the Avocent® Universal
Management Gateway Appliance User
Guide for more information on Security
Profile selections.
1 Rack mounting the appliance
For detailed rack and/or wall mounting instructions, see the Avocent® Universal
Management Gateway Appliance Mounting
Bracket Quick Installation Guide.
2 Connecting to your network
Connect a UTP cable from the primary network port to your network. For redundancy, connect both network ports.
3 Connecting external sensors
The Avocent® Universal Management
Gateway 4000 and 6000 appliance support environmental sensors that can be connected to ports labeled TH,
DI, COM or SNSR. DO ports are physical relays that can be used to turn on/off a DC powered device. For a list of the sensors and configuration requirements, see the appliance user guide.
4 Using autosensing ports
The appliance has autosensing ports that can be used to connect serial, power,
5 service processor and KVM targets
(depending on the model). Autosensing ports are indicated by a turquoise line.
Autosensing ports
Standard ports
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5 Connecting targets
Using UTP cables and supported DB9 or
DB25 console adaptors, connect targets to the appliance. For KVM targets, connect using an UMIQ module. See the UMIQ
Module Quick Installation Guide for more instructions.
NOTE: For the Avocent® Universal
Management Gateway 2000 appliance, only service processors can be connected to the 32 standard ports. KVM targets are not supported.
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To Contact Avocent Technical Support: Visit www.avocent.com
590-1124-501C
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Corporation. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. This document may contain confidential and/or proprietary information of Avocent Corporation, and its receipt or possession does not convey any right to reproduce, disclose its contents, or to manufacture or sell anything that it may describe. Reproduction, disclosure, or use without specific authorization from Avocent Corporation is strictly prohibited. ©2014 Avocent Corporation. All rights reserved.
Avocent
®
Universal Management
Gateway Appliance
Quick Installation Guide
WARNING: Connected serial devices should not exceed 13 volts.
Avocent ® Universal Management Gateway 6000 Appliance
6 Connecting locally or through the console port
You can configure and manage the appliance either via the VGA console or the CLI Setup port. Use the provided RJ-45 to DB-9F cross converter to connect a terminal or workstation to the CLI Setup port. Terminal settings requirements are:
9600, 8, N and 1, with no flow control and
ANSI emulation.
7 Connecting USB devices
You can use the USB ports on the front of the appliance to connect a keyboard, video and mouse or other supported USB devices.
8 Turning on the appliance
For redundancy, the appliance has dual power supplies. Plug the power cables into the appliance and then into a power source to turn the appliance on. Then turn on the devices connected to the appliance.
9 Assigning an IP address
An IP address can be obtained via DHCP or a static IP can be assigned using the VGA or
CLI Setup port.
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To assign the IP address using the VGA console: a. Log in to the appliance’s web user interface using admin as both the username and password. b. Under the Administration tab, click
Network Settings. d. Click the eth0 entry in the table and change the method to Static. e. Assign the desired IP values and click
Apply.
NOTE: If using DHCP, you must first find the IP address assigned to the appliance by looking at the DHCP leases on the network DHCP server.
Then use a browser at https://<appliance IP> to connect to the appliance.
NOTE: For instructions on assigning an IP address using the command line interface see the Universal Management Gateway Appliance
Command Reference Guide.
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To Contact Avocent Technical Support: Visit www.avocent.com
590-1124-501C
Emerson, Emerson Network Power and the Emerson Network Power logo are trademarks or service trademarks of Emerson Electric Co. Avocent and the Avocent logo are trademarks or service marks of Avocent
Corporation. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. This document may contain confidential and/or proprietary information of Avocent Corporation, and its receipt or possession does not convey any right to reproduce, disclose its contents, or to manufacture or sell anything that it may describe. Reproduction, disclosure, or use without specific authorization from Avocent Corporation is strictly prohibited. ©2014 Avocent Corporation. All rights reserved.
