Digi ConnectPort TS 8, ConnectPort TS 16 MEI, ConnectPort TS 16 Quick Start Manual

Quick Start Guide

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ConnectPort TS 8 or 16

RJ-45 diagnostic loopback

Power cord

(for U.S. models)

What’s in the box

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ConnectPort® TS 8 and 16
ConnectPort® TS 8 MEI
and 16 MEI

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LEDs

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LEDs

Connect the hardware

Connect the
Ethernet cable.

Connect the
serial devices,
following the
pin-position
information
below.

If serial devices
are EIA-422/485,
see steps 4e
and 4f.

Cord and
brick power
supply
(for TS 8
models).

Power cord
(for U.S.
models).

Connect the
power supply.

Power:
Green = On

Fuse:
Green = On

Diagnosis:
See User
Guide for
details

C1/C2:
not used

Reset
button

Console
port

Console
port

Reset
button

Power:

Green = On

Diagnosis:
See User
Guide for
details

ConnectPort TS

ConnectPort TS 8

ConnectPort TS 16

Cord and brick power supply
(ConnectPort TS 8 models only)

Pin # on
10-wire
connector

EIA-422/485
Full-Duplex

EIA-232

1 RI TxD­2 DSR* RxD­3 RTS RTS+

4 CGND CGND
5 TxD TxD+
6 RxD+
7 SGND SGND

8 CTS CTS+
9 DTR RTS­10 CTS-

RxD

DCD*

EIA-485
Half-Duplex

N/A
DATA­N/A

CGND
N/A
DATA+
SGND

N/A
N/A
N/A

Serial port pin assignments:

ConnectPort TS 8/16 MEI versions only:

ConnectPort TS products use an
RJ-45 10-wire jack (female), with
Pin 1 in the following location:

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Pin # on
8-wire
connector

2
3
4
5
6
7

8

1

10-wire connector (male):

Pin positions for connecting serial devices to ConnectPort TS products:

For an 8-wire connector, connect the pins to the
center 8 pins of the 10-wire jack:

For a 10-wire connector, Pin 1 of the
connector is in the following location:

10-wire jack (female):

8-wire connector (male):

LEDs, Reset button, and Console port on the front panel:

Insertion end

Top view

Insertion end

Top view

Pin 1

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*Use the ALTPIN setting to swap these two signals

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5 Locate the appropriate cable adapters for your product

Congure the serial ports

Part Number

Cable Adapter

Application

76000697

76000698

76000699

76000700

76000701

76000692

76000631

63000042-01

Digi TS DB-9F Console Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS DB-25M Console Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS DB-25F Console Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS DB-25M Modem Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS DB-9M Modem Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS DB-25M Printer Adapter (4-pk)

Digi TS to Sun Netra/Cisco Cable (single pk)

RJ-45 to RJ-45 Straight Through Ethernet Cable

Bay Accelar, Nortel and other DB-9 DTE devices.

Sun Sparc, Sun Ultra, terminal, printers and other DTE devices with DB-25 female ports.

Cisco, IBM and other DTE devices with DB-25 male ports.

Modems and other DCE devices with DB-25 female ports.

Modems and other DCE devices with DB-9 female ports.

For use with Cisco and Sun RJ-45 Console ports. Also available in 8-pk and 16-pk quantities.

Can be used as a networking cable or combined with one of the adapters as a serial cable.

The table below lists EIA-232 cable adapters that can be used with ConnectPort TS 8/16 products.
For additional cabling information, go to www.digi.com/support/cpts8 and click the Documentation tab.
To order cables, go to the Digi Support site at www.digi.com/support and click Cabling.

For use with printers. This adapter diers from a Console Adapter in that it uses the
DTR signal instead of RTS for hardware ow control.

Navigate to www.digi.com/support/cpts8. Click the Documentation tab. Click Digi Connect Family User Guide to open the User Guide for this product.

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e

f

Use Digi Discovery Utility or Digi Port Authority -- Remote to discover devices on your network and open the web interface:

- In the list of discovered devices, select the ConnectPort TS 8/16 device.

- Congure the IP address if necessary.

- Open the web interface. In Digi Device Discovery Utility, click Open web interface. In Digi Port Authority-Remote, click Device Conguration.

- A login prompt for the web interface is displayed. Enter the default username and password: root and dbps.

In the web interface, under Conguration, click Serial Ports.

Congure serial port settings using port proles. Port proles are a dened set of serial port parameters for a particular use. The web interface and
User Guide contain descriptions of the port proles. For ConnectPort TS 8/16 products, Digi recommends the RealPort port prole. For help in conguring
the device for use with other port proles, see the User Guide. To congure ports to use the RealPort port prole:

- On the Serial Port Conguration page, click the port to be congured.

- Click Change Prole.

- In the list of proles, select the RealPort port prole.

- Click Apply.

For EIA-232 devices that will be connected using 8-wire cables, congure the Altpin setting. The default for this setting is o; it must be enabled
as needed for each serial port. For each applicable serial port:

- Click Advanced Serial Settings.

- Select the Enable alternate pinout (altpin) setting.

- Click Apply.

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Your ConnectPort TS device is now congured for basic serial port connectivity. For information on other conguration options and additional

product information, see the User Guide.

Note: Cable adapters are 8-wire. If you are using these cable adapters with modems, or other applications that require Data Carrier Detect (DCD) control,
you must enable the alternate pinout setting, or ALTPIN, as shown in step 4e.

The serial ports for ConnectPort TS 8/16 MEI products are set to EIA-232 by default. For serial ports that connect to EIA-422 or EIA-485 devices,
congure the serial ports. For each applicable serial port:

- Click the serial port to select it.

- On the Serial Port Conguration page, click the link Multiple Electrical Interface (MEI) Serial Settings.

- Select EIA-422/EIA-485.

- Select the number of dierential wires used for communication:

2 wires: a half-duplex connection with shared transmit and receive wires.
4 wires: a full-duplex connection with independent transmit and receive pairs. This is the default setting.

- Select Enable termination if termination or use of biasing resistors is needed across the lines. Enable this setting if the terminal server port is an endpoint
node of the EIA-422/485 network and termination or biasing is desired. If using 2-wire mode, termination or biasing is used at one of the end points;
usually the Master endpoint.
Note: The CTS and RTS control signals are available as separate dierential signals in the EIA-422/EIA-485 4-wire mode. Do not use these dierential signals
in 2-wire mode. The CTS and RTS dierential signals are not terminated or biased internally. If termination or biasing is needed, it must be done externally.

- Click Apply.

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Download required software

Digi provides several utilities that discover devices present on a network. You will need to download either the Digi Discovery Utility or

Digi Port Authority - Remote.

- Navigate to: www.digi.com/support/cpts8.

- Click the link Diagnostics, Utilities, and MIBs.

- Select your operating system.

- Download and run either the Digi Discovery Utility or Digi Port Authority - Remote.

If the serial ports for your product will be managed using Digi’s RealPort software, download the RealPort software.

- Navigate to: www.digi.com/support/cpts8

- Click the link Drivers.

- Select your operating system. A list of available downloads and release notes for your operating system is displayed.

- Download the Realport driver and the release notes.
For Microsoft Windows operating systems, unzip the download package and run the executable.
For Linux or Unix operating systems, unload the release notes rst and follow the instructions in the release notes.

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