- Raritan Paragon II User Guide

70 PARAGON II USER GUIDE

Tiered Configurations

Standard Tiering Configurations

Single Base Configuration Guidelines

• Only Paragon I HW3 (running Paragon II code) or Paragon II can serve as base units.

• The base unit must always be the latest released version, both in hardware and firmware.

• A maximum of three (3) tiers, including the base unit, is permitted.

• Devices that are not Paragon II Matrix Switches but have two or more channel ports, such as

Raritan MasterConsole, CompuSwitch, Z-CIM, or P2ZCIM, are treated as tier devices. These

devices cannot act as base devices in a Paragon II system and can be connected only to a base

unit or to a second tier Paragon II.

Initialization of a single base configuration with tiered devices from upper to lower tier:

− After all devices have been connected, power ON the devices from upper tier to lower

tier.

− After initialization, each tiered device has an updated database.

Guidelines for changing connections of tiered devices:

Example A: Relocating an upper-tier device (refer to dotted line)

1. Disconnect some or all of the user ports on the tiered unit (UMT-3A) that connect to the

channel ports of the lower-tiered unit (UMT-2A) and re-connect the user ports to the channel

ports of another lower-tier unit (UMT-2B).

2. Recycle the power of tiered devices. This is recommended to build a clean database for the

UMT Matrix Switches. Sequence of recycling power is from the highest tier (tier 3) to the

base unit. In our example: UMT-3A → UMT-2A→ UMT-2B → UMT-Base.

3. The operation is the same for devices that are not UMT Matrix Switches.

Figure 59 Single Base Configuration

UST

Non-UMT tier

device-3A

UMT

Non-UMT tier

device-3B

Non-UMT tier

device-2A

UMT

Non-UMT tier

device-2B

UMT

Base