{"id":94,"date":"2017-03-17T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:29:39","slug":"how-to-setup-a-serial-console-connection-using-putty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/how-to-setup-a-serial-console-connection-using-putty\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup a Serial Console Connection using PuTTy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Applicable Version: 15.01.0 onwards<\/h3>\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A serial connection can be established between any SF Device and a PC using a console\/serial cable (a cable with a 9 pin DB is supplied with the SF Device). PuTTy, an open source SSH and Telnet client, can be used to setup a serial connection. To download PuTTy, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/download.html\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Scenario<\/h3>\n<p>Setup a Serial Console Connection using PuTTy.<\/p>\n<h3>Configuration<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the steps below to setup a serial console connection between the SF Device and a PC:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Physically connect one end of the serial cable (the RJ45 connector, the console cable supplied with the SF Device) to the console port on the front panel of Sophos Firewall and connect the other end to the PC\u2019s serial port.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Launch PuTTy, and Select the Connection type as <b>Serial.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Configuration-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Configuration-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Configuration.png 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go to <span class=\"accesspath\"><strong>Connection &gt; Serial<\/strong><\/span> to configure the <b>Options controlling local series lines<\/b> according to image below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PuTTyConfiguration-300x288.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PuTTyConfiguration-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PuTTyConfiguration.png 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In above image spped shown is is 38400 ,pleas change it to 9600 \u00a0rest all settings are same as shown in image.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Click <b>Open<\/b> to establish the connection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CLILogin-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CLILogin-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CLILogin.png 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applicable Version: 15.01.0 onwards Overview A serial connection can be established between any SF Device and a PC using a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danuc.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}