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Old 05-10-2018
So how about using an ethernet to serial adapter to gain access to the switch serial management port remotely? See attached.

Obviously I would recommend that you fully test the solution locally on an identical switch if you have one, before shipping to the remote site for somebody to simply plug in.

I've successfully used such devices to access serial ports of remote RAID controllers using nothing more than an IP address from PuTTy.

Just an idea. There are, of course, a variety of ethernet to serial adapters out there. Just search for them.
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STRUCT 
RIO_SWITCH(9) Internals STRUCT RIO_SWITCH(9) NAME
struct_rio_switch - RIO switch info SYNOPSIS
struct rio_switch { struct list_head node; u16 switchid; u8 * route_table; u32 port_ok; int (* add_entry) (struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,u16 table, u16 route_destid, u8 route_port); int (* get_entry) (struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,u16 table, u16 route_destid, u8 *route_port); int (* clr_table) (struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,u16 table); int (* set_domain) (struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,u8 sw_domain); int (* get_domain) (struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,u8 *sw_domain); int (* em_init) (struct rio_dev *dev); int (* em_handle) (struct rio_dev *dev, u8 swport); int (* sw_sysfs) (struct rio_dev *dev, int create); struct rio_dev * nextdev[0]; }; MEMBERS
node Node in global list of switches switchid Switch ID that is unique across a network route_table Copy of switch routing table port_ok Status of each port (one bit per port) - OK=1 or UNINIT=0 add_entry Callback for switch-specific route add function get_entry Callback for switch-specific route get function clr_table Callback for switch-specific clear route table function set_domain Callback for switch-specific domain setting function get_domain Callback for switch-specific domain get function em_init Callback for switch-specific error management init function em_handle Callback for switch-specific error management handler function sw_sysfs Callback that initializes switch-specific sysfs attributes nextdev[0] Array of per-port pointers to the next attached device AUTHOR
Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>, <mporter@mvista.com> Author. COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 STRUCT RIO_SWITCH(9)