Remote Communications

This section displays details about the status of the Integrated Remote Console (IRC) and the Rapid Recovery communications configuration.

The following fields display.

Status indicates whether the IRC is supported and enabled. Possible values include Not Supported, Unknown, Enabled, and Disabled.

Three things can cause IRC to be disabled even though you enabled it:

Remote PC Communications to System Configuration Utilities

The following values may be displayed in this field.

If you have enabled Dial-Out Status, a dial-out connection will be attempted first. If that connection fails, then dial-in access is enabled. If the dial-out connection is successful, then dial-in is enabled after that connection is terminated.

After the ASR feature has attempted to deliver an alarm by the means of the pager, if the Dial-Out Status is enabled and a proper Dial-Out String has been provided, ASR will dial a remote PC. When a session is established, the server administrator can use a third party terminal emulation program to run the System Configurations Utilities to diagnose the problem.

Possible values are:

After the ASR feature has attempted to deliver an alarm by means of the pager, if the Dial-Out Status is enabled and a proper Dial-Out String is provided in this field, ASR will attempt to dial a remote PC. When a session is established, the system administrator can use a third-party terminal emulation program to run the System Configurations Utilities to diagnose the problem.