Local Managers provide basic terminal connections to almost any device with a console port. For certain devices, advanced drivers are available to enable monitoring and management.
You can view a list of advanced drivers by entering a question mark when prompted for a Make in the config init command. As of 5.4, this list now includes power controllers.
make [native]: ?
'?' is not supported.
Please choose from one of the following values:
3Com
Alcatel
APC
Avocent
BayTech
Brocade
Cisco
Comtech
enhanced
Foundry
Garmin
GE
Gilat
HP
IBM
iDirect
Juniper
Lantronix
MRV
native
ND SatCom
Netscreen
Nortel
PPP
SeaTel
server
ServerTech
SpaceTrack
Sun
Tasman
Tippingpoint
TracStar
make [native]: Since many devices differ in configuration and operation, Configuration Guides have been made available to provide device-specific instructions for managing the device with a Local Manager.
Some configuration guides make use of the enhanced native mode, which provides additional functionality when an advanced driver is not available.
A general discussion of port initialization is available in the Initializing Ports topic.
Please refer to the topic listing on the left for a list of currently available configuration guides.