Several customers have described situations where the Serial Terminal (managing side) feature would be useful: Note that a terminal emulation program (e.g., HyperTerminal on Windows or minicom on linux) is required to access the serial console from another computer. A special null-modem cable is needed to connect two hosts (like, two PCs, or two routers not modems). A free serial port can also be used to access other routers' (or other equipment, like switches) serial consoles from a MikroTik RouterOS router. The first serial port is configured as a serial console, but you can choose to unconfigure it to free it for other applications. If you do not plan to use a serial port for accessing another device or for data connection through a modem, you can configure it as a serial console. The Serial Console feature is for configuring direct-access configuration facilities (monitor/keyboard and serial port) that are mostly used for initial or recovery configuration. The serial terminal may be used to monitor and configure many devices - including modems, network devices (including MikroTik routers), and any device that can be connected to a serial (asynchronous) port. The Serial Console and Terminal are tools, used to communicate with devices and other systems that are interconnected via serial port. This logfile can be found on the location you selected in the logging options, and opened with a simple text editor such as 'NotePad'.Sub-menu: /system console, /system serial-terminal When you collected enough data, you can close the terminal window and PuTTy will unload while closing the logfile. Secondly, click the 'Browse.' button and select a location and filename where you want to go write the serial data to.įinally click 'Apply' to save the options and start logging. This means that all information displayed in the console window will also be written to the selected file. Next select 'Logging' to open the logging options.įirst enable the logging by changing the 'session logging' setting from 'None' to 'All session output'. To change these settings, click the system menu (the upper left icon in the window caption) and select 'Change Settings.'. To start logging, we have to alter the logging options in PuTTY. When the incoming data looks correct, we can start logging the incoming serial port data.

If not, repeat this step until you get readable data. After changing the baud rate, click 'Apply' to see if it fixes, the problem. Next select 'Serial' to open the serial settings. To change the serial settings, click the system menu (the upper left icon in the window caption) and select 'Change Settings.'. The second is unlikely because most devices are using the N81 data format which is selected by default. The second problem can be fixed by changing the baud rate or the data format. Device outputs ASCII data, however, the serial baud rate or data format setting is incorrect.Device outputs binary data instead of ASCII.When the incoming data is not readable, this might have two causes: If the port is present and not in use by another application, you should see a terminal screen displaying the data that is coming in. The most commonly used baud rates are 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400 bps.Īfter setting this information, click 'Open' to open the serial port. If you do not know the baud rate, no worries, you can change it later on. To connect to a serial port, select the 'Serial' radio button and enter the serial port number as well as the baud rate. You can save the file and run it directly after downloading completes. ĭepending on the Windows operating system you are using, download the 32 or 64 bit putty.exe or puttytel.exe file.

PuTTY for Windows can be downloaded free of charge from. The software can be run directly without running an installer and is easy to use. In addition to some network protocols, it is also a very good and lightweight tool to monitor your serial ports. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers. PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. This document is created to show you step by step instructions on how to accomplish this. When you have problems getting a device over the serial port to work, or in cases where you want your own plugin to be developed by us, our support desk will sometimes ask to log some data from your serial port.

Windows serial terminal program