About This Guide

Purpose

Use this guide for the information on troubleshooting problems with PortServer, PortServer II, Digi One RealPort, and PortServer TS 2/4/8/16.

Audience

This manual is intended for the person responsible for configuring, administering, and troubleshooting PortServer, PortServer II, Digi One RealPort, and PortServer TS 2/4/8/16. This person should have experience configuring network devices and be familiar with networking concepts.

Conventions

Following are the conventions used in this document:

• Special fonts
  • A special font is used for any input you need to enter. For example,

    mkpconn

  • Variables will be displayed in italics. For example, 

    stty-digi ttyname

    Substitute an appropriate TTY name for ttyname in the above command.

• Optional parameters will be displayed within square brackets. For example,

  ditty [-a] [altpin]

  The square brackets themselves are not actually part of the command, and should not be entered.

• A vertical bar character (|) is used to denote a choice (logical "or"). For example,

  set flow=on|off

  The above command would be entered as either

  set flow=on or set flow=off. 

• Keys and titles of dialog boxes, indexes, menu bars, windows, etc. appear exactly how they appear on the keyboard or on the screen.
• The word, Choose, can mean Click, Point, Select, Hit, Press and so on.