Under Ports > Physical Ports in Expert Mode, after you select one or more serial ports, and click the Modify Port(s), you can select the Multi User form from the tabbed menu. The following form appears.The Multi User form enables you to open more than one session from the same serial port. Multiple users can connect simultaneously to a serial port. To connect to a port or start a shared session, the user must have permission to access the port. If you allow multiple sessions through “Allow Multiple Sessions” drop-down menu, the “Privilege Users” field should be populated with the user names who have access rights.
Allow Multiple Sessions Options are No, Yes (show menu), Read/Write (do not show menu), and ReadOnly (do not show menu). See Table 10-9 for more detail. Allow sniffing on multiple user connection to a serial port.
Do not allow multiple sessions. Only two users can connect to the same port simultaneously. One shared session and one normal session are allowed. More than two simultaneous users can connect to the same serial port.
• Send a message to other users connected to the same serial port. Read/Write (do not show menu) Read/write sessions are opened, and the sniffer menu won’t be presented. ReadOnly (do not show menu) Read only sessions are opened, and the sniffer menu won’t be presented.To Configure Multiple Sessions and Port Sniffing for One or More Serial Ports
3. To allow or to prevent multiple sessions, select an option from the “Allow Multiple Sessions” pull-down menu.The options are: “No,” “Yes (show menu),” “Read/Write (do not show menu),” “ReadOnly.”
4. To configure the type of data that displays on the monitor in a port-sharing session, select an option from the “Sniff Mode” pull-down menu.
b. Enter a hot key in the “Menu Hotkey” field to display the sniffer menu on the monitor. The default shown is [^z]. The caret stands for the Ctrl key.