sundance-communications.com/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Vodavi Telephones & Systems DB9 RS232 cable Pinout for programming

I need to make a new cable to program with [I have no idea what happened to my old one!!]. The info in the manual is wrong. I have tried it and it does not work. I remember having to make one with a special pinout.

I have also tried standard DB9 straight through cables and they do not work. I get no respoonse in HyperTerminal or WinDBA. :confused:

I've been going in via the sets or via ST 499 if the modem is present.

Sooo, does anybody have the correct pinout? :confused:

Or.... Is it possible that the presence of the Modem board disables RS232 Admin access?

A standard DB9 to DB9 should work - thats all I've ever used. The modem card does not disable the RS232 ports.

Try a null modem adapter.......Thats what we use.

This is so frustrating... Sometimes the simple things will cause you the most grief.

No luck with either a straight thru or the null modem.

I get the 'connected' indication in HyperTerminal, but never get the Vodavi header text and login prompt. WinDBA does not connect either.

Yet the SMDR data streams fine, so I know the RS232 port is OK on the system.


This has got to be something simple......

HT is set for 9600-8-N-1 Auto-Detect

I've also tried Terminal settings ANSI and VT100.

You are using the top serial port on the KSU? The KSU is programmed for 9600?

I make my own cables. I believe that they are straight thru. 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, etc...

Try switching flow control to Xon/Xoff.

Will one of the cables you have work on the Flash VM? If so, it should work on the KSU.

Are you sure the com port on your laptop/terminal is good? You state that the SMDR output is received ok, but maybe the Tx lead is bad and the KSU is not seeing your 'carriage return'.

Yup, Top RS232 port, tried the bottom too. SMDR streams out of the bottom.

PC and cable work for HDD VM card in the same system.

RS232/Comm1 works for other applications.

Tried Xon/Xoff

Tried changing the baud rate on the system port.

Guess I'm gonna have to call Vodavi someday when I've got 3 or 4 hours to kill.

I'll be willing to try any other ideas if anybody has'em.

The HDD VM com port is DTE and not DCE like the STS KSU.

In other words, the connection of a PC to HDD-VM requires a null modem cable or adapter, unlike the KSU which is straight thru.

Make sure that ICLID is not enabled in flash 56 to port 1

Well, I changed ICLID to Port 2.

WinDBA connects & transfers now, and I can get HyperTerminal to connect, but all I get is the log-in header, entering the PW does nothing; cursor goes dead. That may be a different issue though.

At least I can use WinDBA now.


Edit >>>> But then again, there may be a problem with the older notebook or the older version of HyperTerminal. The newer notebook and the desktop both connect fine now with almost any cable, including a USB to Serial adapter cable. Both HT and WinDBA work.

So I guess I owe OldH2oSkier a coffee and a donut! :bow: :thumb:


Was that something I was supposed to know? I've never seen that in any of the books.......

I am really not the tech of the year but the system i have here needs a special programming cable(avaya cpuv100),
the rs232 i had was just an out the box one and didn't work, called a tech out, he plugged in his cable and it works,
they also sometimes change the port settings to get the max speed out of it to 38400!
I asked the tech guy where to get a cable and they are sending me an avaya programming cable next week so maybe give your local telecoms guy a shout and he can get one,
they said it should be easy to make but i haven't found anything positive on the net other than this
CODE
rj-45
PIN 1 ORANGE 2 CD
PIN 2 GREEN 5 RD
PIN 3 YELLOW 6 TD
PIN 4 BLACK 3 DTR
PIN 5 RED 4 SG
PIN 6 BROWN 7 DSR
PIN 7 WHITE 8 RTS
PIN 8 n/a CTS
PIN 9 BLUE 1

Cheers

Vodavi insists that you use Hyperterm PE rather than the version that comes with Windows (not sure that I agree, but what the heck). You can download it free at https://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/

Bill

I used a straight through 9 pin serial, with a null modem adapter. xon/xoff also 9600

I had ksu with same issue. When I would connect to program if I did not enter and key strocks with in 30 seconds or so it would lock up programming. Had to reboot the ksu. Ended up swapping it out for a newer version and everything was fine.

What version of software are you running in it?

Guys, this post is over 3 years old.

Sorry about that did not check that before responding.