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1. 39 Gerierdl Setup progel Ue iniecit uide pid I Mio ERA dndS 40 Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort 41 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort 43 Installing en your Systeri 50 Qi TUE ON JT 54 Using TruePort under Solaris aiu et 55 General procedure for using TF ef olt ettet ete 55 Adding logins to serial ports using Admintool 56 Removing terminals using Admintaol 60 Using Tr ePort nder AIX constent uten hd otiosi atat 63 General procedure for using TruePort 63 Adding 64 Enabling and disabling 64 Listing TIruePort TTY and printer 65 Listing the terminal servers on your system 66 Removing terminal SCIVElS E 67 Deleting the TruePort devices on your system 68 Using TruePort under Windows 2000 69 General procedure for using TruePort 69 Adding PONS 70
2. 3 In the System Properties window click on the Hardware tab The hardware page is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 70 cEDEBTE 4 the Hardware page click on the Device Manager Button The Device Manager window is now displayed showing the terminal server s and their associated ports Device Manager Action view e 9 EQ Ele 9 08 Keyboards Mice and other pointing devices 27 Ports COM amp LPT Communications Port COM2 ECP Printer Port LPT1 TruePort Serial Port COM3 E 4 Sound video and game controllers System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers m J E E E 5 the Device Manager window double click on the terminal server to which you want to add ports The Properties tabbed window is now displayed JetStream 8500 Properties General Configuration Driver T Name J58500 001 Web Config IP Address 192 168 0 12 Telnet Config MAC Address 00 60 09 C3 F2 66 r TruePort Connection Mode Connection Mode automatic x m TCP Port Settings Number of Ports First TCP Port fioo Last TCP Port 10023 24 Restore Defaults About 6 Within the Properties window click on the Configuration tab Then in the configuration page now displayed set the fields and buttons shown in the next table as required TruePort User gu
3. Installing TruePort on page 17 Using TruePort on page 54 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Page 16 Spe A 12 Installing TruePort The procedure for installing TruePort or depends on the operating system you are using See the sections listed below for details Installing TruePort under Solaris on page 18 Installing TruePort under AIX on page 30 Installing TruePort under Windows 2000 on page 39 For information on using TruePort see Using TruePort on page 54 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 17 cEDEBTE Installing TruePort under Solaris This section tells you how to install TruePort under the Solaris operating system and includes the following General setup procedure on page 19 Installing TruePort on your system on page 19 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort on page 20 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 22 Adding ports to the config tp file on page 29 Once you have completed basic installation you can perform further operations using TruePort See Using TruePort on page 54 for details TruePort User guide Installing TruePort Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Page 18 Spe Ay 12 General setup procedure To install and setup the TruePort software on your system proceed as follows 1 Install TruePort onto your system using the procedu
4. Serial DOS tesi base ce 78 Removing pofts or GOVICES eet d opa duit 76 Page 9 PEARSE CHAPTER 3 INSTALLING AND USING TRUEPORT LITE 77 Installing Ter Or Lie auod OO UM ERE NIE MUN 78 Installing TruePort Lite under NCR 79 Installing TruePort Lite under Solaris 80 Installing TruePort Lite under SCO 80 Installing Tr ePort Elle under e e td beetle testes 81 General PrOCOOUIS MR RET PEE 82 Installing TruePort Lite on your system 82 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite 83 Configuring your IOLAN terminal server to use TruePort Lite 65 Using TEP GI Lle m 86 Using TruePort Lite under NCR UNIX Solaris and SCO OpenServer 87 General procedure for using TruePort Lite 88 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite 89 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Lite 91 Adding ports to the TIG 97 Enabling ports for transparent Dining uiii iiie aee rra 98 DoR
5. ee 4 4 REVISION HISTORY uiia cR 5 FAST CONTENTS 22 oe EruE PESE alata sna Fiat 6 CONTENTS LEE 7 Page 7 PEARSE CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 13 About ITUBPOE ett ece e NNN 14 Page 8 PEARSE CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING AND USING TRUEPORT 16 Installing Ter OF nin IPAE 17 Installing TIruePort under Solaris oret 18 General E 19 Installing TruePerten your 19 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort 20 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort 22 Adding ports ta the contig tp TNO pe 29 Installing IriePort under AIX sioe teer exte rerit 30 General Setup DIOQeBOHEI ee a 31 Installing Tr ePo On your SVSIGIt 2 32 Working with more than 512 ports 33 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort 34 Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort 37 Installing TruePort under Windows 2000
6. 1 Install TruePort onto your system using the procedure described in Installing TruePort on your system on page 32 Note While this version of TruePort supports up to 1024 TruePort ports between 2 daemons the initial installation will only handle 512 ports with 1 daemon TruePort AIX version 4 1 0 runs the network connection for up to 512 TruePort ports in a single process If you require more than 512 TruePort ports you need to start a second process See Working with more than 512 ports on page 33 2 Configure your terminal server to use the TruePort software using the procedure described in Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 37 You can now use your TruePort software For details of further options following initial setup and installation see Using TruePort on page 54 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 31 Spe Ay 12 Installing TruePort on your system To install the TruePort device drivers on your system proceed as follows 1 login to your system as super user 2 Copy the supplied installable files onto the filesystem of the host computer we recommend tmp You now need to create a drivers disk to do this 3 At the command prompt copy the TruePort package file to a blank floppy disk by typing dd if tmp tpaix300 img of dev fd0 bs 64k and pressing the Enter key 4 At the command prompt type installp ac
7. To list all of the TTY s created and their TruePort attributes terminal server name or address port number see Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 103 Note The AIX serial TTY administration system is built into AIX the user has no control over the tty names generated All the ports will be numbered from the next available device number In general if there are no other defined serial ports in the system the TTY s will be created starting from tty0 You can generate a list of available TTY s using the smit tty menu See Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 103 Enabling and disabling logins Once you have created tty ports you can enable or disable individual tty ports using the standard AIX tty administration smit menus See your AIX user documentation for details TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 101 Listing TTY and printer devices To list all TruePort TTY and printer devices and show which Terminal Server and TCP IP port they are associated with proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices
8. c Type set line 3 service silent raw aixserver 10002 and press the Enter key d Type set line 4 service silent raw aixserver 10003 and press the Enter key 6 At the command prompt type save and press the Enter key 7 Atthe command prompt type logout and press the Enter key The following message is now displayed Connection closed by foreign host The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete You can now perform other system management tasks using TruePort as required See Installing TruePort under AIX on page 30 and Using TruePort under AIX on page 63 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 38 cEDEBTE Installing TruePort under Windows 2000 This section tells you how to install TruePort under the Windows 2000 operating system and includes the following General setup procedure on page 40 Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 41 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 43 Installing TruePort on your system on page 50 Once you have completed basic installation you can perform further operations using TruePort See Using TruePort under Windows 2000 on page 69 for details TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 39 Spe Ay 12 General setup procedure To install and setup the TruePort software on your system proceed as follows 1
9. Repair procedure Before sending a unit for repair you must contact your Perle supplier If however you bought your product directly from Perle you can contact directly See Contacting Perle technical support on page 121 for contact information Customers who are in Europe Africa or Middle East can submit repair details via a website form shown in the next picture This form is on the Perle website www perle com in the Support area Click here to access our web site at the following URL http www perle com support rma form html In the USA and Asia contact the office shown in the Technical Support section Website RMA Return Material Authorisation Form E http 7 www perle com support rma form html Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help 2 EGTWAnd Stop Refresh Search Favorites History Mail Print Edit Address e http www perle com support rma form html gt Links PLEASE COMPLETE ALL THE FIELDS RMA FORM Return Address Information all fields must be completed Region Americas Attention Telephone Fax Email Repair procedure Page 119 Spe Ay 12 Feedback about this manual If you have any comments or suggestions for improving this manual please email Perle using the following address Email ptac perle com Please include the title part number and date
10. Welcome string Text None Command Line Prompt Status User defined Command Line Prompt Text None Active Session Messages Status Disabled Passive Session messages Status Disabled Hint Use the up down left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down the shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 14 In the Accept field type Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes 15 Repeat steps 12 to 14 of this procedure for each channel you want to set up Note The port number of the host should be unique for each port 16 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Ctrl and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu Note If your system is fitted with a Wyse 60 terminal you need to do the following 1 In the CONFIGURATION MENU select option 5 Channel Configuration to display the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU 2 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 1 Channel Interface parameters to display the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window 3 In the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window a Select the Channel Nr channel number you want and then set the DCD Control parameter to High b Set accept to Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes c Press the CTRL and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFI
11. available Do you want to continue the installation No More Info 9 In the Digital Signature Not Found window click on the Yes button to continue A completion message page is now displayed as shown in the next picture Add Remove Hardware Wizard 10 In the completion message page click on the Finish button to complete the new configuration After the you have finished adding cards to the system all connected port devices will now be detected Windows 2000 will try to install the latest driver for the ports from its database or will prompt you for one if one cannot be found TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 53 Spe A 12 Using TruePort The procedure for using TruePort or depends on the operating system you are using See the sections listed below for details Using TruePort under Solaris on page 55 Using TruePort under AIX on page 63 Using TruePort under Windows 2000 on page 69 For information on installing TruePort see Installing TruePort on page 17 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 54 cEDEBTE Using TruePort under Solaris General procedure for using TruePort The general procedure for using the TruePort is as follows 1 Install the TruePort software on your UNIX server See Installing TruePort on page 17 2 If required add logins to any serial ports you requir
12. Configuration The INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 9 In the INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu select option 1 System Internet Parameters and press the Enter key The INTERNET PARAMETERS screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 96 12 Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 11 INTERNET PARAMETERS Global RIP Status Enabled Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 ARP Retries 1 IP Checksum Enabled IP Options Enabled IP Default TTL 15 IP Priority Ratio 24 TCP Checksum Enabled TCP Options Enabled TCP Max Rexmt Timeout 20 TCP Retry Count 5 TCP Keep Alive Timer 1 TCP Keep Alive Interval 1 TCP Keep Alive Count 2 TCP Set Push Flag Disabled Telnet Protocol Base No 1000 Transparent Protocol Base No 2000 Console Protocol Port No 23 Accept ve ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl y Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 10 Within the INTERNET PARAMETERS screen a Setthe TCP keep alive timer field to 1 b Set the Accept field to Y and press the Enter key 11 Press the Ctrl and A keys simultaneously to log off The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete Adding ports to the config tp file To add a terminal to a specified port on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM proceed as follows 1 At the unix prompt ty
13. Enter key d Type set line 4 service silent raw w2kserver 10003 and press the Enter key 6 At the command prompt type save and press the Enter key 7 Atthe command prompt type logout and press the Enter key The following message is now displayed Connection to host lost The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 42 Spe Ay 12 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Before your system can use the TruePort software when installed you need to configure your terminal server This section describes how to configure a Perle LINKSTREAM To configure a JETSTREAM see Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 41 To configure your terminal server to use TruePort proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a LINKSTREAM called testls2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server 1 At the command prompt type telnet testls2 and press the Enter key A series of messages are now displayed ending with a the prompts shown in the next picture User Identity Password 2 Atthe User Identity prompt type Manager and press the Enter key 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The default password is e The Main Menu is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Ja
14. F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F3 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices and press Enter A screen is now displayed listing all the TruePort TTY and printer devices on your system TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 102 Listing the terminal servers on your system To list the terminal servers on your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Hove cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices Fi Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell 10 Enter Do Adding a terminal 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press the Enter server key The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 Within the Manage Terminal Servers menu select List all Terminal Servers and press the Enter key A screen showing a list of terminal servers is now displayed TruePort User g
15. F8 L F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 Within the Manage Terminal Servers menu select List all Terminal Servers and press the Enter key A screen showing a list of terminal servers is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 66 Removing terminal servers To remove a terminal server from your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell Fi1 Exit Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press Enter The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers Add Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 In the Manage Terminal Servers menu select Remove Terminal Server and press Enter A screen showing a list of terminal servers is now displayed 4 Within the list screen select the item you want to remove from the list and press Enter A popup screen is now displayed asking you to confirm removal
16. TruePort Page 20 Spe Ay 12 You can now Configure the terminal server ports 5 At the command prompt do the following a Type set line 1 service silent raw sunserver 10000 and press the Enter key b Type set line 2 service silent raw sunserver 10001 and press the Enter key c Type set line 3 service silent raw sunserver 10002 and press the Enter key d Type set line 4 service silent raw sunserver 10003 and press the Enter key 6 At the command prompt type save and press the Enter key 7 Atthe command prompt type logout and press the Enter key The following message is now displayed Connection closed by foreign host The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 21 Spe A 12 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Before your system can use the TruePort software you have installed you need to configure your terminal server for example a Perle LINKSTREAM To configure your terminal server to use TruePort proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a LINKSTREAM called testls2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server 1 At the command prompt type telnet testls2 and press the Enter key A series of messages are now displayed ending with a the prompts shown in the next picture User Identity Password 2 Atthe Us
17. gt software Server Combined terminal and remote access server For example JETSTREAM Terminal Auxiliary port Modem port on terminal on terminal Printer TruePort software is available in the following variants On some operating systems only TruePort Lite is supported TruePort This mode allows complete device control and operates exactly like a directly connected serial port See Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort TruePort Lite This mode is a data only mode and has no device control capabilities See Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite TruePort User guide Chapter 1 Introduction About TruePort Page 14 PEARSE TruePort User guide Chapter 1 Introduction About TruePort Page 15 Spe Ay 12 Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort You need to read You need to read this chapter if you want to install or use TruePort this chapter if you want to This chapter provides the procedure for installing and using TruePort to add and remove terminals from a terminal server In addition it includes information on how to enable a terminal for transparent printing as well as how to start a terminal without re booting the network server Note The procedure for installing TruePort or depends on the operating system you are using See the sections listed below for details This chapter includes the following sections
18. to configure your terminal server for example a Perle JETSTREAM 8500 Note All versions of the JETSTREAM 8500 4000 and LANSTREAM 2000 software support TruePort Lite operation However the JETSTREAM 6x series software version must be 4 03 or greater To configure your terminal server to use TruePort Lite proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a JETSTREAM 8500 called testjs2 in this instance to use TruePort Lite software on a host server called sunserver 1 At the command prompt type telnet testjs2 and press the Enter key The following messages are now displayed Trying Connected to testjs2 perle com Escape character is Telnet connect to JETSTREAM testjs2 Perle JETSTREAM 8500 version 2 2 7 Login 2 Atthe Login prompt type admin and press the Enter key The following prompt is now displayed Password 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The next stage is illustrated using an example which shows how to configure 4 ports on a JETSTREAM 8500 terminal server This will set the ports 1 to 4 to connect to the host sunserver without user intervention Configuring the 4 Add the host you want to the terminal server using the add host command as shown in terminal server the following example pons a Atthe command prompt type the following b add host sunserver 192 152 247 61 c Press the Enter k
19. values in entry fields Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes Entry Fieldsl Hostname or IP address L 1 Base TCP IP port number 100001 Keep alive timeout seconds 30 Enable logins now Yes 1 1 F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F4 List F5 Reset F6 Command F7 Edit F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 4 Within the Add Terminal Server screen use the Entry Fields to select or enter the values you want for each of the parameters listed in the next table Parameter Action required Hostname or IP address Specify the name or IP address of the terminal server you wish to add Number of ports Enter the number of ports you require Base TCP IP port number Enter the starting TCP IP port number you require for the first port Keep alive timeout seconds Selects how often to probe the port to make sure the port is still connected to the network This is set to 30 by default and normally does not need setting by the user Enable logins now Enable the logins on all ports you have created Default value YES If you leave the Enable logins now field as YES the port devices will be created and enabled for login A block of tty port devices is now added to the AIX system Once a terminal server has been added you can add further terminal servers list terminal servers or delete terminal servers 5 Repeat steps 2 to 4 of this procedure until you have added all the te
20. 30 P using TruePort Lite under 100 using TruePort under 63 ports adding 97 deleting 98 enabling for transparent printing 98 config tp file syntax for 111 starting without re booting server 99 configuration file see config tp printing transparent 98 contacting Perle Systems 115 product repair form 119 email 115 for technical support 116 Q internet 115 quick reference 106 D deleting a port 98 repair procedure 119 E product repair form 119 RMA form 119 email 115 RMA form 119 S installing TruePort starting ports without re booting server 99 under AIX 30 syntax under Solaris 18 config tp file 111 under Windows 2000 39 for tpadm commands 112 installing TruePort Lite under AIX 81 T under NCR UNIX 79 Page 122 Spe Ay 12 FABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ technical support 116 U centres worldwide 121 queries information needed for 117 via the internet 118 who to contact 116 a p command 112 tpadm a p t command 113 tpadm commands syntax 112 tpadm a p 112 tpadm a p t 113 tpadm d 114 tpadm s 114 tpadm d command 114 tpadm s command 114 tpadm utility command syntax 112 transparent printing enabling ports for 98 TruePort installing under AIX 30 under Solaris 18 under Windows 2000 39 introduction to 14 using under AIX 63 using under Solaris 55 using under Windows 2000 69 TruePort Administration Tool see also tpadm utility TruePort and TruePort Lite difference between 14 TruePort dif
21. 5 Within the popup select yes and press the Enter key to remove the selected terminal server from the list TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 67 Deleting the TruePort devices on your system To delete the all ports and terminal servers from your system proceed as follows To remove a terminal server from your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image 5 11 Fi Exit Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Delete all TruePort Devices and press the Enter key A popup screen is now displayed asking you to confirm deletion 3 Within the popup select yes and press the Enter key All TruePort devices are now deleted from your system and a screen showing a list of deleted devices is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 68 cEDEBTE Using TruePort under Windows 2000 General procedure for using TruePort The general procedure for using the TruePort is as follows 1 Install the TruePort software on your server See Installing TruePort un
22. 8500 Note All versions of the JETSTREAM 8500 4000 and LANSTREAM 2000 software support TruePort operation However the JETSTREAM 6x series software version must be 4 03 or greater To configure your terminal server to use TruePort proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a JETSTREAM 8500 called testjs2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server called sunserver 1 At the command prompt type telnet testjs2 and press the Enter key The following messages are now displayed Trying Connected to testjs2 perle com Escape character is Telnet connect to JETSTREAM testjs2 Perle JETSTREAM 8500 version 2 2 7 Login 2 At the Login prompt type admin and press the Enter key The following prompt is now displayed Password 3 At the Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The next stage is illustrated using an example which shows how to configure 4 ports on a JETSTREAM 8500 terminal server This will set the ports 1 to 4 to connect to the host sunserver without user intervention Configuring the 4 Add the host you want to the terminal server using the add host command as shown in terminal server the following example pons a Atthe command prompt type the following b add host sunserver 192 152 247 61 c Press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing
23. Configure your terminal server to use the TruePort software For JETSTREAM terminal servers see Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 41 For LINKSTREAM see Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 43 2 Install the TruePort software onto your system See Installing TruePort on your system on page 50 Note We recommend using the default TruePort settings for each terminal server on your network and their associated serial ports If you wish to change these settings see Using TruePort under Windows 2000 on page 69 Note To remove ports or devices see Removing ports or devices on page 76 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 40 Spe A 12 Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Before your system can use the TruePort software when installed you need to configure your terminal server This section describes how to configure a Perle JETSTREAM To configure a LINKSTREAM see Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 43 Note All versions of the JETSTREAM 8500 4000 and LANSTREAM 2000 software support TruePort operation However the JETSTREAM 6x series software version must be 4 03 or greater To configure your terminal server to use TruePort proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a JETSTREAM 8500 call
24. ERS screen is now updated with the current settings for the selected channel 8 Within the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen set the parameters shown in the next table TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 44 Spe A 12 Parameter Set to Access PVC Master Session mode Transparent Maximum sessions 1 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Host ip address Port number on the host Note that the port number of the host should be unique for each port Use the range from 10000 upwards Hint Use the up arrow down arrow left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down the shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 9 At the Accept prompt type Y and press the Enter key to accept the values you have entered The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now updated 10 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Crtl and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu 11 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu select option 3 Channel Strings Configuration The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 45 Spe A 12 Node NoName Thu 01
25. GURATION MENU 4 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 4 Reset Copy Channel Parameters and press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 95 cEDEBTE The RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen is now displayed as shown in the next picture Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 10 RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS Copy Interface Parameters Copy Strings Source Channel Source Channels Destination Channels to Destination Channels to Copy Session Parameters Source Channel Destination Channels to Reset Y Channels 2 to 2 ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu etrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 5 Within the RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen a Toggle the Reset parameter to Y and press the Enter key b In the Channels field enter the range of channels you want to update For example 0 to 3 Setthe Accept field to Y and press the Enter key Hint You can also use this screen to copy channel session and string parameters from one channel to another 6 Press the Ctrl and X keys simultaneously to return to the main menu 7 In the main menu select option Configuration The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 8 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Internet Protocol
26. Jan 1970 00 09 CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION String Space 1854 Channel Nr 2 Channel Name CHAN 02 Welcome String Status User Defined Text None Command Line Prompt Status User Defined Text none Active Session Messages Status Disabled Errors Enabled Connect None Disconnect None Passive Session Messages Status Disabled Connect None Disconnect None Accept L etrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 12 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen set the Channel Nr field to the channel number you are working on and press the Enter key The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now updated to show the values for the selected channel 13 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen toggle the parameters detailed in the next table to the values indicated TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 46 Spe Ay 12 Parameter Set to Welcome string Status User defined Welcome string Text None Command Line Prompt Status User defined Command Line Prompt Text None Active Session Messages Status Disabled Passive Session messages Status Disabled Hint Use the up down left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down t
27. Jan 1970 00 10 RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS Copy Interface Parameters Copy Strings Source Channel Source Channels Destination Channels to Destination Channels to Copy Session Parameters Source Channel Destination Channels to Reset Y Channels 2 to 2 ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu etrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 5 Within the RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen a Toggle the Reset parameter to Y and press the Enter key b In the Channels field enter the range of channels you want to update For example 0 to 3 Setthe Accept field to Y and press the Enter key Hint You can also use this screen to copy channel session and string parameters from one channel to another 6 Press the Ctrl and X keys simultaneously to return to the main menu 7 In the main menu select option Configuration The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 8 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Internet Protocol Configuration The INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 9 In the INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu select option 1 System Internet Parameters and press the Enter key The INTERNET PARAMETERS screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 48 12 Node NoN
28. Name User ID Comment listen a Network Admin lp gu Line Printer Admin noaccess 60002 No Access User nobody 60001 Nobody nobody4 65534 SunOS 4 x Nobody nuucp 9 uucp Admin root Super User smtp 0 Mail Daemon User suooff 1001 rj Host daedelus 4 In the Admintool menu click on Browse gt Serial Ports The Admintool window is now updated to show the serial ports available on the system as shown in the next picture Admintool Serial Ports Jol x File Edit Browse Help Port Port Monitor Service Tag Comment b zsmon ttyb 0 ttumonO 8 lt port service disabled gt 1 ttymond 2 term 1 2 ttumonO z tumonO 3 term 4 LA and 4 lt port s ad gt M 4 5 the Admintool window single click on the terminal you want to remove to highlight it 6 In the Admintool menu click on Edit Delete The terminal entry for the serial port is now deleted and the Admintool window updated TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 61 12 Admintool Serial Ports iof x Edit Browse Help Port Port Monitor Service Tag Comment b zsmon ttub 0 lt no service gt 1 lt no service gt 2 lt no service gt a lt no service gt 4 ttymond 4 lt port service disabled gt 5 ttymond 5 lt port service disabled gt 6 ttymond 6 lt port service disabled gt 7 ttymond X lt port service disabl
29. PONS Sara missa tutatus Ld Enn a 98 Starting a port without re booting the UNIX server 99 Using TruePort Lite under AIX 100 General procedure for using TruePort Lite 100 et ort torte udis one tiem ner err 101 Enabling and disabling IGgilis eoi ceo 101 Listing TruePort TTY and printer devices 102 Listing the terminal servers on your system 103 Isgmovitig terminal SERV CFS iss ies etapa 104 Deleting the TruePort devices on your system 105 Page 10 Spe ay 12 CHAPTER 4 QUICK REFERENCE 106 AIX Men s a DOVER EREREREEER HIIS i n DD 107 Perle TruePort menu screen 108 TEP GM mend ap 108 addports script JruePort only 110 GOOPOMS ER 110 FAC HON RET EU UIT 110 eji ER 110 aiat EI cre ryt ere terete rt 110 config tp D 111 TruePort Administration tpadm commands 112 Padi ez o
30. The UNIX prompt for login is now displayed 2 Atthe UNIX prompt copy the supplied TruePort Lite package file tpsco100 pkg onto your System into the tmp directory 3 At the UNIX prompt type pkgadd d tmp tpsco100 pkg all The installation now creates the TruePort Lite home directory and installs TruePort Lite and the TruePort Administration Tool for easy editing of the config tp file TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 80 12 Installing TruePort Lite under AIX This section tells you how to install TruePort Lite under the AIX operating system and includes the following General setup procedure on page 82 Installing TruePort Lite on your system on page 82 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 83 Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 103 Removing terminal servers on page 104 Configuring your IOLAN terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 85 Adding logins on page 101 Enabling and disabling logins on page 101 Once you have completed basic installation you can perform further operations using TruePort Lite See Using TruePort Lite under AIX on page 100 for details Note The AIX serial TTY administration system is built into AIX the user has no control over the tty names generated All the ports will be numbered from the next available device number In general if there are no other defined
31. X all and press the Enter key to Install the software The TruePort administrative files and utilities are now installed in the etc trueport directory and the device drivers will be loaded Note You do not need to reboot at this point TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 32 Spe Ay 12 Working with more than 512 ports While this version of TruePort supports up to 1024 TruePort ports between 2 daemons the initial installation will only handle 512 ports with 1 daemon TruePort AIX version 4 1 0 runs the network connection for up to 512 TruePort ports in a single process If more than a total of 512 TruePort ports are required a second process must be started Note The TruePort daemon s can therefore become very large when the maximum number of ports is configured Consider increasing the system swap space partition if you don t have enough physical memory to keep the process memory resident To enable the second daemon and second set of 512 ports 1 At the command prompt enter the following mkitab i tpd tpd2 2 respawn etc trueport tpd 2nd config etc trueport config tp Note This line has been wrapped and the command must be entered as one line TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 33 Spe Ay 12 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Once you
32. addports after system installation The commands and syntax for the addports tool are listed below For details of the tpadm utility see TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands on page 112 addports m n Function Invokes the TruePort Administration tool tpadm to add entries to the config tp file and once added run them Syntax tpadm Where m is the first port device device terminal to add starting at 0 is the last port device device terminal to add Example addports 0 15 This example adds ports 0 to 15 to the config tp file and also runs them TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference addports script TruePort only Page 110 Spe a 12 config tp file syntax Note If you use addports to enable TruePort you do not need to use the tpadm utility See addports script TruePort only on page 110 The line in a typical config tp configuration file used to control a terminal looks like this tty dev term X0 port 1000 aux dev term X1p term wy6 ka 30 trace 3 The command syntax of the config tp configuration file is described in the next table Command Example Description tty ttyname tty dev term X0 or tty dev ttyX0 ttyname is the TTY name for the port This must be the complete path name starting with dev term We recommend that you use the name range X0 X255 port portnumber port 1000 portnumber is the TCP IP por
33. age 12 12 Chapter 1 Introduction You need to read You need to read this chapter if you want to know about the TruePort device driver software this chapter if you want to This chapter provides an introduction to the TruePort software and some general information about how to use it This chapter includes the following sections About TruePort on page 14 TruePort User guide Chapter 1 Introduction Page 13 Spe ay 12 About TruePort TruePort is a serial port emulation system for the Perle JETSTREAM LINKSTREAM and IOLAN terminal server products You use TruePort when you want to connect extra terminals to a server using a Perle terminal server rather than a multi port serial card TruePort is especially useful where you want to improve security for example to see which user is logged onto which terminal Under UNIX TruePort allows you to print directly from a terminal to an attached printer transparent printing Currently TruePort supports the AIX Solaris x86 2 6 and 2 7 Solaris Sparc 2 5 1 and Windows 2000 operating systems In addition the TruePort Lite version is supported under NCR UNIX 3 0x and SCO OpenServer 5 0x Operating system ma M contig tp file Config tp UNIX only read in by operating system LAN connector on server Device Device TruePort driver driver device diver a
34. am 4000 JetStream 8500 8500 If the required server type is not shown select the Generic Terminal Server option Now click on the OK button to accept settings and close the window The Select a Device Driver page is now updated to show the new server you have selected 7 In the Select a Device Driver page select the Terminal server you want then click on the Next gt button The Start Hardware Installation page is now displayed Add Remove Hardware 8 In the Start Hardware Installation page click on the Next gt button to accept your choice Start Hardware Installation Windows is ready to install driv If the version of TruePort you are installing has not been tested by Microsoft a digital signature not found window is now displayed as shown in the next picture TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 52 Digital Signature Not Found The Microsoft digital signature affirms that software has been tested with windows and that the software has not been altered since it was tested The software you are about to install does not contain a Microsoft digital signature Therefore there is no guarantee that this software works correctly with Windows JetStream 8500 If you want to search for Microsoft digitally signed software visit the Windows Update Web site at http windowsupdate microsoft com to see if one is
35. ame Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 11 INTERNET PARAMETERS Global RIP Status Enabled Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 ARP Retries 1 IP Checksum Enabled IP Options Enabled IP Default TTL 15 IP Priority Ratio 24 TCP Checksum Enabled TCP Options Enabled TCP Max Rexmt Timeout 20 TCP Retry Count 5 TCP Keep Alive Timer 1 TCP Keep Alive Interval 1 TCP Keep Alive Count 2 TCP Set Push Flag Disabled Telnet Protocol Base No 1000 Transparent Protocol Base No 2000 Console Protocol Port No 23 Accept ve ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl y Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 10 Within the INTERNET PARAMETERS screen a Setthe TCP keep alive timer field to 1 b Set the Accept field to Y and press the Enter key 11 Press the Ctrl and A keys simultaneously to log off The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 49 Anz Installing TruePort on your system To install the TruePort software on your system proceed as follows 1 In the Windows desktop click on the Start button and select Settings Control Panel The control panel window is now displayed Control Panel File Edit View Favorites Tools fey Qusearch Gyrolders 25 Address 59 Control Panel Accessibility Options T
36. and Printer dev Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices Fi Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell 10 Enter Io Adding a terminal 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press the Enter server key The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers Add Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 Within the Manage Terminal Servers menu select Add Terminal Server and press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 83 cEDEBTE The Add Terminal Server screen is now displayed Hint You only need to change parameters marked with an leave other parameters at defaults fidd Terminal Server Tupe or select values in entry fields Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes CEntry Fields Hostname or IP address L 1 1 Base TCP IP port number 10000 d Keep alive timeout seconds 30 Enable logins now Yes F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F4 List F5 Reset F6 Command F7 Edit F8 Image F9 Shell F1O0 Exit Enter Do 4 Within the Add Terminal Server screen use the Entry Fields to select or enter the values you want for each of the parameters listed in
37. and networks TruePort User guide Purpose of this manual Page 3 Spe Ay 12 Using this on line manual The following is a brief guide to using this manual on line Document navigation This manual features document navigation hypertext buttons in the header area as shown in the next picture SS aA Jump to Using this on line manual Jump to Index Jump to Quick Reference Jump to previous location Jump to front of current chapter Jump to Contents Jump to Fast contents Hypertext jumps You can also navigate around this manual by clicking on any cross reference or text in blue for example Hypertext jumps Note The Fast Contents Contents and Index entries are all hypertext jumps into this manual TruePort User guide Using this on line manual Page 4 Spe Ay 12 Revision history Date Part number Description June 1999 5500030 10 First issue of new TruePort Lite user manual for NCR UNIX operating system July 1999 5500030 11 Update of manual to include Solaris and SCO OpenServer operating systems November 1999 5500030 12 Update of manual to include both TruePort and TruePort Lite March 2000 5500030 13 Update of manual to include information on configuring LINKSTREAM terminal servers April 2000 5500030 14 Minor update of manual to include information on configuring LINKSTREAM terminal serve
38. ave added by typing tpadm s portnumber Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server You can now print directly from the auxiliary port of the terminal you have added Deleting ports To Remove a terminal from a specified port on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM proceed as follows Atthe unix prompt type tpadm d portnumber and press the Enter key Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the terminal server We recommend that you use the range 100007 The selected terminal has now been removed from the configuration file Note The TruePort software for this port continues to run until the next system re boot You can stop the software immediately by finding the PID of the TruePort daemon for this port and using the kill PID command Do not stop the software using the kill 9 command as this prevents the software from doing tidy up before it exits TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 98 Starting a port without re booting the UNIX server To start a terminal which uses a specified TruePort daemon entry proceed as follows Atthe UNIX prompt type tpadm s portnumber Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and usin
39. ck on the System icon The System Properties tabbed window is now displayed 3 In the System Properties window click on the Hardware tab 4 In the Hardware page now displayed click on the Device Manager Button The Device Manager window is now displayed Action view e 9 8 Ed ef 1 8 Keyboards 3 Mice and other pointing devices Monitors Multi port serial adapters z0 a 8500 BI Network adapters Ports COM amp LPT Communications Port COM2 9 ECP Printer Port LPT1 TruePort Serial Port COM3 qp Sound video and game controllers m System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers I 5 Within the Device Manager window highlight the serial port or terminal server you want to remove and press the Delete key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 76 Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite You need to read You need to read this chapter if you want to install or use TruePort Lite to manage terminals this chapter if yu your system want to This chapter provides information on how to install TruePort Lite add and remove terminals from a terminal server In addition it includes information on how to enable a terminal for transparent printing as well as how to start a terminal without re booting the network
40. d ending with a the prompts shown in the next picture User Identity Password 2 Atthe User Identity prompt type Manager and press the Enter key 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The default password is The Main Menu is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 03 Main Menu 1 Configuration 2 Statistics Select Screen i ctrl lt a gt Log Off SYSTEM MSG Enter option number 4 In the Main Menu use the Select Screen field to select option 1 Configuration and press the Enter key The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 91 12 5 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 5 Channel Configuration The CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 6 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Channel Session Parameters The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 08 CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS Channel Nr 2 Telnet Transparent Internet Address 192 65 146 100 Protocol Port Numbers 1002 2002 Access PVC Master Session Mode Transparent Default Port 23 Maximum Sessions 1 Idle Timeout TCP Window Size 1024 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Preferred Destination None Data Transfer Mode Parameters Terminal Type unknown Sessio
41. der Windows 2000 on page 39 2 If required add any serial ports you want to your terminal server See Adding serial ports on page 70 3 Configure any serial ports you add using the procedure given in Configuring serial ports on page 73 4 Remove any terminals or devices from your network as required See Removing ports or devices on page 76 5 Repeat steps 2 to 4 as needed to manage the terminals on your network TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 69 12 Adding serial ports To add ports to a a terminal server within the TruePort software under Windows 2000 proceed as follows Note Under normal conditions we recommend using the default TruePort settings for each terminal server on your network If you want to use settings other than the default use the procedures defined in this section to proceed 1 In the Windows 2000 desktop click on the Start button and select Settings gt Control Panel The control panel window is now displayed Control Panel File Edit View Favorites Tools Back QQsearch C Folders history Address Control Panel Accessibility Options Control Panel Add Remove Hardware lt p Installs removes and troubleshoots hardware 2 In the Control Panel window click on the System icon The System Properties tabbed window is now displayed
42. e See Adding logins to serial ports using Admintool on page 56 3 If required remove any terminals from the specified ports on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM See Removing terminals using Admintool on page 60 4 Repeat steps 1 to 3 as needed to manage the terminals on your network TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 55 AD Adding logins to serial ports using Admintool You can add a login on a serial port using the Solaris admintool To this proceed as follows Note The following example assumes you are using the Sun graphical user interface 1 In the Solaris desktop single click on the Application Manager toolbar icon shown in the next picture Double click here to start Application Manager The Application Manager window is now displayed ication Manager File Selected View Desktop Apps Desktop Controls Desktop Tools E System Admin 2 In the Application Manager window double click on the System Admin folder The System Admin window is now displayed Application Manager System amp dmin File Selected View Admintool 3 In the System Admin window double click on the Admintool icon TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 56 Spe Ay 12 The main Admintool window is now displayed as shown in the next picture Admintool Us
43. e 99 TruePort User guide Using TruePort Lite Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Page 87 Spe Ay 12 General procedure for using TruePort Lite The general procedure for using the TruePort is as follows 1 Install the TruePort software on your UNIX server See Installing TruePort Lite on page 78 2 Configure your terminal for the TruePort Lite service Note For LINKSTREAM terminal servers see Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 89 For all other types see Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 91 3 Add the ports you want to use See Adding ports to the config tp file on page 97 4 If required enable transparent printing on the terminals of your choice See Enabling ports for transparent printing on page 98 5 If required delete the specified ports on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM See Deleting ports on page 98 6 Repeat steps 1 to 5 as needed to manage the ports on your network Note For details of the command syntax used in this chapter see TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands on page 112 in Chapter 4 Quick reference TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 88 Spe Ay 12 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite Before your system can use the TruePort Lite software you have installed you need
44. e Multiport serial adapters icon to display the currently installed devices 6 In the Device Manager window double click on the serial port whose properties you want to view or change The device Properties tabbed window is now displayed 7 In the device Properties window click on the Port Settings tab to display the Port Settings page TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 74 TruePort Serial Port COM3 Properties General Port Settings Driver Bits per second Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits iti x Flow control None o Advanced Restore Defaults 8 In the Port Settings page set the Port Number Baud Rate and other configuration parameters you require and then click on the OK button to save changes and close the window Note To change a port name click on the Advanced button then in the Advanced settings window now displayed select the port name you want The configuration process is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 75 Spe Ay 12 Removing ports or devices To remove serial ports or terminal servers under Windows 2000 proceed as follows 1 In the Windows 2000 desktop click on the Start button and select Settings gt Control Panel The control panel window is now displayed 2 In the Control Panel window cli
45. e smitt configuration utility allow you to perform various port management tasks with your system These are outlined in the next table Menu option Description List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Lists all TruePort TTY and printer devices and shows which Terminal Server and TCP IP port they are associated with See page 65 Manage Terminal servers gt List all Terminal Servers Allows you to list all terminal servers present on your system See page 66 Add Terminal Server Allows you to add a terminal server to your System See page 34 Remove Terminal Server Allows you to remove a terminal server from your System See page 67 TruePort User guide AIX command menus Page 108 Chapter 4 Quick reference EDT Menu option Description Manage TTY Devices Displays the generic AIX TTY administration menu See your AIX user documentation for details Manage Printer Devices Displays the generic AIX printer administration menus See AIX manual for details Delete all TruePort Devices Deletes all TruePort devices on your system See page 68 TruePort User guide AIX command menus Page 109 Chapter 4 Quick reference Spe A 12 addports script TruePort only The addports script allows you to add a range of ports to the config tp file and run them without having to use the tpdadm utility You can invoke
46. ed gt 8 ttumonO 8 lt port service disabled gt 9 ttumonO E lt port service disabled gt 10 ttymond 10 lt port service disabled gt 4 Host daedelus 7 Repeat steps 5 to 6 until you have removed all the TruePort terminal entries you require TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 62 cEDEBTE Using TruePort under AIX General procedure for using TruePort The general procedure for using the TruePort is as follows 1 Install the TruePort software on your UNIX server See Installing TruePort under AIX on page 30 2 Add logins to any serial ports you as required See Adding logins on page 64 3 If required remove any terminals from the specified ports on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM See Removing terminal servers on page 67 4 Enable or disable any logins as needed using the procedures in Enabling and disabling logins on page 64 Hint To list all TruePort TTY and printer devices on your system see ListingTruePort TTY and printer devices on page 65 To list the terminal servers on your system see Listing the terminal Servers on your system on page 66 To delete all TruePort devices from your system see Deleting the TruePort devices on your system on page 68 5 Repeat steps 1 to 4 of this procedure as needed to manage the terminals on your network TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort U
47. ed testjs2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server called w2kserver 1 At the command prompt type telnet testjs2 and press the Enter key The following messages are now displayed Trying Connected to testjs2 perle com Escape character is Telnet connect to JETSTREAM testjs2 Perle JETSTREAM 8500 version 2 2 7 Login 2 Atthe Login prompt type admin and press the Enter key The following prompt is now displayed Password 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The next stage is illustrated using an example which shows how to configure 4 ports on a JETSTREAM 8500 terminal server This will set the ports 1 to 4 to connect to the host sunserver without user intervention Configuring the 4 Add the host you want to the terminal server using the add host command as shown in terminal server the following example ports a At the command prompt type the following b add host w2kserver 192 152 247 61 TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 41 12 c Press the Enter key You can now Configure the terminal server ports 5 At the command prompt do the following a Type set line 1 service silent raw w2kserver 10000 and press the Enter key b Type set line 2 service silent raw w2kserver 10001 and press the Enter key c Type set line 3 service silent raw w2kserver 10002 and press the
48. elect option 1 System Internet Parameters and press the Enter key The INTERNET PARAMETERS screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 27 12 Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 11 INTERNET PARAMETERS Global RIP Status Enabled Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 ARP Retries 1 IP Checksum Enabled IP Options Enabled IP Default TTL 15 IP Priority Ratio 24 TCP Checksum Enabled TCP Options Enabled TCP Max Rexmt Timeout 20 TCP Retry Count 5 TCP Keep Alive Timer 1 TCP Keep Alive Interval 1 TCP Keep Alive Count 2 TCP Set Push Flag Disabled Telnet Protocol Base No 1000 Transparent Protocol Base No 2000 Console Protocol Port No 23 Accept ve ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl y Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 10 Within the INTERNET PARAMETERS screen a Setthe TCP keep alive timer field to 1 b Set the Accept field to Y and press the Enter key 11 Press the Ctrl and A keys simultaneously to log off The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 28 Spe Ay 12 Adding ports to the config tp file Introduction TruePort administrative files and utilities are installed in the etc trueport directory Note The standard installation installs 64 mi
49. er Identity prompt type Manager and press the Enter key 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The default password is The Main Menu is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 03 Main Menu l Configuration 2 Statistics Select Screen ctrl a Log Off SYSTEM MSG Enter option number 4 the Main Menu use the Select Screen field to select option 1 Configuration and press the Enter key The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 22 12 5 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 5 Channel Configuration The CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 6 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Channel Session Parameters The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 08 CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS Channel Nr 2 Telnet Transparent Internet Address 192 65 146 100 Protocol Port Numbers 1002 2002 Access PVC Master Session Mode Transparent Default Port 23 Maximum Sessions 1 Idle Timeout TCP Window Size 1024 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Preferred Destination None Data Transfer Mode Parameters Terminal Type unknown Session Echo Mode 9 Telnet Remote Accept ctrl a Log Off ctrl lt x gt Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previ
50. ers x File Edit Browse Help User Name User ID Comment listen ar Network Admin lp 71 Line Printer Admin noaccess 60002 No ficcess User nobody 60001 Nobody nobody4 65534 SunOS 4 x Nobody nuucp 9 uucp Admin root 0 Super User smtp 0 Mail Daemon User swooff 1001 Host daedelus 4 In the Admintool menu click on Browse gt Serial Ports The Serial Ports window is now displayed File Edit Browse Help Port Port Monitor Service Tag Comment b zsmon ttyb 0 ttymond 0 lt port service disabled gt 1 ttumonO 1 dev term 1 2 ttumonO 3 ymond term 4 lt port s od gt mo Iti 4 5 the Serial Ports window double click on the serial port you want to modify Alternatively click on the port to highlight it then in the Serial Ports menu click on Edit Modify The Modify Serial Port window is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 57 6 In the Modify Serial Port window display basic information only by clicking on the Basic button in the Detail field Admintool Modify Serial Port Ea Template Terminal Hardwired 1 Detail v More v Expert Port 1 Baud Rate 9600 Service Enable T Terminal Type Apply Reset Cancel Help 7 In the Modify Serial Port window click on the Template selector and choose the type of device you want to con
51. es Status Disabled Passive Session messages Status Disabled Hint Use the up down left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down the shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 14 In the Accept field type Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes 15 Repeat steps 12 to 14 of this procedure for each channel you want to set up Note The port number of the host should be unique for each port 16 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Ctrl and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu Note If your system is fitted with a Wyse 60 terminal you need to do the following 1 In the CONFIGURATION MENU select option 5 Channel Configuration to display the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU 2 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 1 Channel Interface parameters to display the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window 3 In the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window a Select the Channel Nr channel number you want and then set the DCD Control parameter to High b Set accept to Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes c Press the CTRL and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU 4 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 4 Reset Copy Channel Parameters and pre
52. ey TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 89 12 You now Configure the terminal server ports 5 At the command prompt do the following a Type set line 1 service silent raw sunserver 10000 and press the Enter key b Type set line 2 service silent raw sunserver 10001 and press the Enter key c Type set line 3 service silent raw sunserver 10002 and press the Enter key d Type set line 4 service silent raw sunserver 10003 and press the Enter key 6 Atthe command prompt type save and press the Enter key 7 Atthe command prompt type logout and press the Enter key The following message is now displayed Connection closed by foreign host The configuration of terminal server ports is now complete TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 90 cEDEBTE Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Lite Before your system can use the TruePort Lite software you have installed you need to configure your terminal server for example a Perle LINKSTREAM To configure your terminal server to use TruePort Lite proceed as shown in the following example The example shows you how to configure a LINKSTREAM called testls2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server 1 At the command prompt type telnet testls2 and press the Enter key A series of messages are now displaye
53. ferences to TruePort Lite 14 TruePort Lite differences to TruePort 14 general procedure for using 88 installing under NCR UNIX 79 under SCO OpenServer 80 under Solaris 80 installing under AIX 81 introduction to 14 using 77 using under AIX 100 using under NCR UNIX 87 using under SCO OpenServer 87 using under Solaris 87 using TruePort under AIX 63 under Solaris 55 under Windows 2000 69 using TruePort Lite under AIX 100 under NCR UNIX 87 under SCO OpenServer 87 under Solaris 87 Windows 2000 installing TruePort under 39 using TruePort under 69 Page 123 PEARSE ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Page 124
54. g TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 99 SAO Using TruePort Lite under AIX General procedure for using TruePort Lite The general procedure for using the TruePort Lite is as follows 1 Install the TruePort Lite software on your UNIX server See Installing TruePort Lite under AIX on page 81 2 Add logins to any serial ports you as required See Adding logins on page 101 3 If required remove any terminals from the specified ports on the remote access server for example a Perle JETSTREAM See Removing terminal servers on page 104 4 Enable or disable any logins as needed using the procedures in Enabling and disabling logins on page 101 Hint To list all TruePort TTY and printer devices on your system see ListingTruePort TTY and printer devices on page 102 To list the terminal servers on your system see Listing the terminal Servers on your system on page 103 To delete all TruePort devices from your system see Deleting the TruePort devices on your system on page 105 5 Repeat steps 1 to 4 of this procedure as needed to manage the terminals on your network TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 100 PEARSE Adding logins When using TruePort Lite under the AIX operating system logins are automatically enabled by default when you add a terminal server See Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 83 Hint
55. have installed the TruePort device drivers and utilities in the etc trueport directory see page 32 you need to configure TruePort using the smit configuration utility for general details of the smit configuration utility refer to your AIX user documentation To do this Hint To list the terminal servers on your system see Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 66 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell Fi1 Exit Enter Do Adding a terminal 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press Enter server The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers fidd Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 Within the Manage Terminal Servers menu select Add Terminal Server and press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 34 PEARSE The Add Terminal Server screen is now displayed fidd Terminal Server or select
56. he shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 14 In the Accept field type Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes 15 Repeat steps 12 to 14 of this procedure for each channel you want to set up Note The port number of the host should be unique for each port 16 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Ctrl and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu Note If your system is fitted with a Wyse 60 terminal you need to do the following 1 In the CONFIGURATION MENU select option 5 Channel Configuration to display the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU 2 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 1 Channel Interface parameters to display the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window 3 In the CHANNEL INTERFACE PARAMETERS window a Select the Channel Nr channel number you want and then set the DCD Control parameter to High b Set accept to Y and press the Enter key to accept your changes c Press the CTRL and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU 4 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION MENU select option 4 Reset Copy Channel Parameters and press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 47 cEDEBTE The RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen is now displayed as shown in the next picture Node NoName Thu 01
57. ial ports To configure TruePort serial ports under Windows 2000 proceed as follows 1 In the Windows 2000 desktop click on the Start button and select Settings gt Control Panel The control panel window is now displayed 3 Control Panel File Edit View Favorites Tools Qusearch Folders 25 Address Control Panel Accessibility Options Control Panel Add Remove Hardware Installs removes and troubleshoots hardware 2 In the Control Panel window click on the System icon The System Properties tabbed window is now displayed 3 In the System Properties window click on the Hardware tab The hardware page is now displayed 4 the Hardware page click on the Device Manager Button The Device Manager window is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 73 cEDEBTE L Device Manager Action view s 8 m 2 8 Keyboards TA Mice and other pointing devices Monitors multi port serial adapters HI DESEE 5 Ports COM amp LPT Communications Port COM2 ECP Printer Port LPT1 TruePort Serial Port COM3 g Sound video and game controllers m System devices Universal Serial Bus controllers 5 In the Device Manager window click on th
58. ide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 71 Spe A 12 Item Description Web Config Launches web based configuration software for your server if available only possible if connection to terminal server has been made Telnet Config Launches telnet software for terminal server if available only possible if connection to terminal server has been made TruePort connection mode Sets TruePort to either Automatic mode Full mode or Lite mode Full mode allows complete device control and operates exactly like a directly connected serial port See Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Lite mode is a data only mode and has no device control capabilities See Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Automatic tries to use Full mode first otherwise it defaults to Lite mode TCP ports settings Selects the number of ports you want to Number of ports configure as serial ports on the terminal server First TCP port Sets first TCP port address normally 10 000 Last TCP port Sets the last TCP port address Set to first TCP port plus the number of ports Note if you set number of ports on first TCP port last TCP port is set automatically 7 Within the Properties window click on the Click on OK button to save and apply changes TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 72 Spe Ay 12 Configuring ser
59. ii uP Spe A 12 TruePort User guide Part number 5500030 19 Date 10 July 2002 Navigating around this manual Using this on line manual See page 4 Fast Contents See page 6 Contents See page 7 Quick reference See page 106 Index See page 122 Page 1 12 Copyright statement This document must not be reproduced in any way whatsoever either printed or electronically without the consent of Perle Systems Europe Limited 3 Wintersells Road Byfleet Surrey KT14 7LF UK Perle reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products to improve reliability function or design Specialix the Specialix logo JETSTREAM JETSTREAM4000 JETSTREAM8500 LANSTREAM2000 are trademarks of Perle Systems Limited Microsoft Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation Perle Systems Limited 10 July 2002 Page 2 SPA 12 About this manual Purpose of this manual This manual tells you how to install and use the TruePort software for managing terminals on a network Who this manual is for This manual is aimed at System Administrators who want to want to manage terminals connected to a Perle terminal server This manual requires System Administrator level knowledge of the UNIX and Windows 2000 operating systems
60. is chapter includes the following sections Note When using TruePort or TruePort Lite under AIX you can only use the menus detailed on page 107 AIX command menus on page 107 addports script TruePort only on page 110 config tp file syntax on page 111 TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands on page 112 Note Unless otherwise indicated the information in the chapter applies to both TruePort and TruePort Lite modes TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference Page 106 Spe A 12 AIX command menus This section provides a quick guide to the smitt configuration utility menus used by TruePort and TruePort Lite under the AIX operating system and includes the following Perle TruePort menu screen on page 108 Perle TruePort menu map on page 108 Note Details of the generic AIX menus are beyond the scope of this manual and are not included See your AIX user documentation for further details TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference AIX command menus Page 107 cEDEBTE Perle TruePort menu screen Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh 1 F3 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do Perle TruePort menu map F8 Image The Perle TruePort menus within th
61. keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu 11 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu select option 3 Channel Strings Configuration The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 93 Spe A 12 Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 09 CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION String Space 1854 Channel Nr 2 Channel Name CHAN 02 Welcome String Status User Defined Text None Command Line Prompt Status User Defined Text none Active Session Messages Status Disabled Errors Enabled Connect None Disconnect None Passive Session Messages Status Disabled Connect None Disconnect None Accept L etrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 12 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen set the Channel Nr field to the channel number you are working on and press the Enter key The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now updated to show the values for the selected channel 13 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen toggle the parameters detailed in the next table to the values indicated TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 94 Spe Ay 12 Parameter Set to Welcome string Status User defined
62. lt p Add Rem Control Panel Add Remove Hardware Installs removes and troubleshoots hardware 2 In the control panel window double click on the System icon The System Properties tabbed window is now displayed System Properties EN s e General Network Identification Hardware User Profiles Advanced System Microsoft Windows 2000 5 00 2195 Service Pack 2 Registered to The System Properties tabbed window is now displayed 3 In the System Properties tabbed window click on the Hardware tab TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 50 Spe Ay 12 4 System Properties 2x General Network Identification Hardware User Profiles Advanced Hardware Wizard The Hardware wizard helps you install uninstall repair unplug eject and configure your hardware Hardware Wizard In the hardware page now displayed click on the Hardware Wizard button The Add Remove Hardware Wizard is now displayed 5 Using the instructions given in the next table use the Add Remove Hardware Wizard to perform the TruePort software installation In this Wizard page Do the following Add Remove Hardware Wizard Choose a Hardware Task Which hardware task do you wa 1 In the Add Remove Hardware Wizard select Add Troubleshoot a device and press the Next gt button The Choo
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64. n 1970 00 03 Main Menu l Configuration 2 Statistics Select Screen L ctrl lt a gt Log Off SYSTEM MSG Enter option number 4 n the Main Menu use the Select Screen field to select option 1 Configuration and press the Enter key The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 43 12 5 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 5 Channel Configuration The CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 6 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Channel Session Parameters The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now displayed Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 08 CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS Channel Nr 2 Telnet Transparent Internet Address 192 65 146 100 Protocol Port Numbers 1002 2002 Access PVC Master Session Mode Transparent Default Port 23 Maximum Sessions 1 Idle Timeout TCP Window Size 1024 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Preferred Destination None Data Transfer Mode Parameters Terminal Type unknown Session Echo Mode 9 Telnet Remote Accept ctrl a Log Off ctrl lt x gt Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu ctrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 7 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen select the channel you want to set up and press the Enter key The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMET
65. n Echo Mode 9 Telnet Remote Accept ctrl a Log Off ctrl lt x gt Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu ctrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 7 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen select the channel you want to set up and press the Enter key The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now updated with the current settings for the selected channel 8 Within the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen set the parameters shown in the next table TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 92 Spe A 12 Parameter Set to Access PVC Master Session mode Transparent Maximum sessions 1 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Host ip address Port number on the host Note that the port number of the host should be unique for each port Use the range from 10000 upwards Hint Use the up arrow down arrow left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down the shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 9 At the Accept prompt type Y and press the Enter key to accept the values you have entered The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now updated 10 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Crtl and Y
66. nal server on your system using the procedures given in the IOLAN user documentation 2 Login to the IOLAN and select Admin mode and enter the PORT SETUP MENU PORT SETUP MENU REMOTE ADMIN Hardware Flow ctrl Keys Speed L9600 Flow ctrl LXON XOFF 1 Hot 1 Intr C Parity None Input Flow Enabled 1 Quit Kill U Bit 8 Output Flow Enabled 1 Del 8 Sess 81 Stop I1 1 Echo 81 Break Disabled IP Addresses Monitor DSR 1 Srce 1 Mask 1 Monitor DCD 1 Dst 1 User ptions ficcess Name 1 Keepalive No J ficcess Remote 1 Terminal type vt100 Rlogin Telnet Telnet Authentication None TERM Debug options No 1 Mode Rau 1 Video pages 0 Map CR to CRLF No 1 Connection None 1 CLI Menu Menu Hex data No 1 Host 1 Reset Term No 1 Secure No 1 Remote Port 1 MOTD No 1 Local Port 10004 3 Within the IOLAN PORT SETUP MENU set the Hardware configuration parameters as required for example baud rate parity and so on Then set the Access parameters as detailed in the next table Note Each IOLAN port is configured to use a unique remote TCP port in the range 10001 10024 Access parameter Set to Access parameter Set to Access Remote Connection None Authentication None Host Not used Mode Raw Local Port 10001 10001 for the first port 10002 for the second and so on You can now perform system management tasks using TruePort as req
67. nder NCR UNIX To install TruePort Lite under NCR UNIX proceed as follows 1 Log in to the UNIX server as root user The UNIX prompt for login is now displayed 2 Atthe UNIX prompt copy the supplied TruePort Lite package file tpncr102 pkg onto your System into the tmp directory 3 At the UNIX prompt type pkgadd d tmp tpncr102 pkg all The installation now creates the TruePort Lite home directory and installs TruePort Lite and the TruePort Administration Tool for easy editing of the config tp file In addition the installation adds a port monitor called trumon You can use this monitor to add logins to TruePort ports TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 79 cEDEBTE Installing TruePort Lite under Solaris To install TruePort Lite under Solaris proceed as follows 1 Log in to the UNIX server as root user The UNIX prompt for login is now displayed 2 Atthe UNIX prompt copy the supplied TruePort Lite package file tpsol110 pkg onto your System into the tmp directory 3 At the UNIX prompt type pkgadd d tmp tpsol110 pkg all The installation now creates the TruePort Lite home directory and installs TruePort Lite and the TruePort Administration Tool for easy editing of the config tp file Installing TruePort Lite under SCO OpenServer To install TruePort Lite under SCO OpenServer proceed as follows 1 Log in to the UNIX server as root user
68. nect to the currently selected serial port For example to attach a terminal to the serial port select Terminal Hardwired Hint For details of the parameters in this field click on the help button to invoke the Solaris on line help about this window 8 In the Modify Serial Port window click in the Service Enable checkbox displaying a tick to enable the currently selected serial port 9 In the Modify Serial Port window click on the Baud Rate selector and choose the Baud rate you want For example 9600 10 In the Terminal Type field enter the terminal type you want Note The terminal type you enter must be a valid terminal type as defined by the termcap file See the Solaris user documentation or online help for further details 11 In the Modify Serial Port window click on the OK The currently selected serial port now has a terminal session enabled at the specified baud rate even parity 7 data bits and 1 stop bit The Serial Ports window is now updated to show this as shown in the next picture TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 58 12 Admintool Serial Ports iof x Edit Browse Help Port Port Monitor Service Tag Comment b zsmon ttyb 0 ttumonO 0 lt port service disabled gt T ttymond 1 fdev term 1 2 ttumonO ttu2 port service disabled gt E ttumonO E dev term 3 4 ttymond 4 lt port service disabled g
69. ng TruePort Lite Page 104 Deleting the TruePort devices on your system To delete the all ports and terminal servers from your system proceed as follows To remove a terminal server from your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Hove cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices Fi Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell 10 Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Delete all TruePort Devices and press the Enter key A popup screen is now displayed asking you to confirm deletion 3 Within the popup select yes and press the Enter key All TruePort devices are now deleted from your system and a screen showing a list of deleted devices is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 105 Chapter 4 Quick reference You need to read You need to read this chapter if you want information about the command menus under AIX this chapter if yu the command syntax for the config tp file and TruePort Administration Tool want to This chapter provides a quick guide to the command menus under AIX the config tp file and TruePort Administration command syntax Th
70. nor node devices ports however you must enable these ports before they can be used Each installed TTY is assigned a name by the operating system this will be in the range 0 63 if you have no previous multi port serial installation You may link these names to your own TTY names if you require The standard installation creates the following device nodes dev term 0 dev term 1 dev term 2 and so forth up to dev term 63 and dev cua 0 dev cua 1 dev cua 2 and so forth up to dev cua 63 To enable a range of ports we have provided a script called addports that starts the TruePort service This assumes you have added configured ports on your terminal server starting at TCP IP port number 10000 The addports script allows you to add a range of ports to the config tp file and run them without having to use the tpdadm utility page 112 You can invoke addports after system installation Using addports To use the addports script proceed as follows Atthe command prompt type addports m n Where m is the first port device device terminal to add starting at 0 n is the last port device device terminal to add for example to add ports 0 to 15 to the config tp you type addports 0 15 Once the ports have been enabled you may use them as standard UNIX serial TTY s Once the software is installed and configured you can add login sessions using the admintool utility see Adding logins to serial ports using Admintool on page 56 in for details TruePo
71. of the manual you can find these on the title page at the front of this manual Feedback about this manual Page 120 Spe Ay 12 Contacting Perle technical support Note Perle offers free technical support to Perle Authorised Distributors and Registered Perle Resellers To access technical support please visit the Perle website at www perle com support If you are unable to find the information you require please feel free to contact our technical support teams by email using the addresses shown in the next table Region Address Email North America Perle Systems Ltd 60 Renfrew Drive Markham Ontario Canada L3R OE1 Email ptac perle com Europe Perle Systems Europe Ltd 3 Wintersells Road Byfleet Surrey KT14 7LF UK Email ptac perle com Asia Perle Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 190 Middle Road 19 05 Fortune Centre Singapore 188979 Email ptac perle com Worldwide Perle Systems Ltd 60 Renfrew Drive Markham Ontario Canada L3R OE1 Email ptac perle com Contacting Perle technical support Page 121 PEARSE ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Index A under SCO OpenServer 80 under Solaris 80 About this manual 3 adding ports 97 addports script 110 o example 110 on line manual function 110 guide to using 4 syntax 110 hypertext jumps 4 AIX navigation 4 installing TruePort Lite under 81 installing TruePort under
72. ous Menu ctrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 7 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen select the channel you want to set up and press the Enter key The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now updated with the current settings for the selected channel 8 Within the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen set the parameters shown in the next table TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 23 Spe A 12 Parameter Set to Access PVC Master Session mode Transparent Maximum sessions 1 AutoCall Destination 192 65 144 23 10000 Host ip address Port number on the host Note that the port number of the host should be unique for each port Use the range from 10000 upwards Hint Use the up arrow down arrow left and right arrow keys to move the cursor around the screen To change the setting s for a field highlight the current value then hold down the shift key and use the lt and gt keys to toggle the field to the value you require 9 At the Accept prompt type Y and press the Enter key to accept the values you have entered The CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen is now updated 10 In the CONFIGURE SESSION PARAMETERS screen press the Crtl and Y keys simultaneously to return to the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu 11 In the CHANNEL CONFIGURATION menu selec
73. pe tpadm a portnumber p ttyname and press the Enter key Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server and ttyname is the TTY name for the port 2 Repeat step 1 until you have added all the terminals you want 3 At the UNIX prompt start the terminal you have added by typing tpadm s portnumber Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server You can now use the terminals you have added TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 97 12 Enabling ports for transparent printing To add a terminal to a specified port on the remote access server with transparent printing enabled proceed as follows Syntax 1 At the unix prompt type tpadm a portnumber p ttyname t termtype and press the Enter key Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the terminal server ttyname is the TTY name for the port and termtype is a terminal type listed in the file printcap tp Note To specify a printer port name using this command you append the letter p to the device name For example if your main tty name is devittyX0 then the transparent print port will be devittyX0p 2 Repeat step 1 until you have enabled all the terminals you want for transparent printing 3 At the UNIX prompt start the terminal you h
74. ple The example shows you how to configure a JETSTREAM 8500 called testjs2 in this instance to use TruePort software on a host server called aixserver 1 At the command prompt type telnet testjs2 and press the Enter key The following messages are now displayed Trying Connected to testjs2 perle com Escape character is Telnet connect to JETSTREAM testjs2 Perle JETSTREAM 8500 version 2 2 7 Login 2 Atthe Login prompt type admin and press the Enter key The following prompt is now displayed Password 3 Atthe Password prompt enter your password and press the Enter key Note The next stage is illustrated using an example which shows how to configure 4 ports on a JETSTREAM 8500 terminal server This will set the ports 1 to 4 to connect to the host sunserver without user intervention Configuring the 4 Add the host you want to the terminal server using the add host command as shown in terminal server the following example pons a Atthe command prompt type the following b add host aixserver 192 152 247 61 c Press the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 37 Spe Ay 12 You can now Configure the terminal server ports 5 At the command prompt do the following a Type set line 1 service silent raw aixserver 10000 and press the Enter key b Type set line 2 service silent raw aixserver 10001 and press the Enter key
75. r Technical Support department they are qualified to deal with your problem If you are a registered Perle supplier and bought your product from Perle contact Perle Technical Support using the details given in Contacting Perle technical support on page 121 Making a technical support query Page 116 PEARSE Information needed when making a query When you make a technical support enquiry please have the following information ready Hint Print out this page and fill in the table provided with the basic information you need Item Write details here Product name and version Problem description Operating system version Driver version Details of any other cards installed in your system Your name Company Name Country Phone number Fax number Email address if available Making a technical support query Page 117 cEDEBTE Making a support query via the Perle web page If you have an internet connection please send details of your problem to Technical Support using the email links provided on the Perle web site in the Support area See also Contacting Perle technical support on page 121 for email links and other contact details for the Perle technical support centres Click here to access our website at the following URL http www perle com Making a technical support query Page 118 SPA 12
76. re described in Installing TruePort on your system on page 19 2 Configure your terminal server to use the TruePort software Note For LINKSTREAM terminal servers see Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 22 For all other types see Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort on page 20 3 Add the range of ports you require to the config tp file and run them using the addports script See Adding ports to the config tp file on page 29 You can now use your TruePort software For details of further options following initial setup and installation see Using TruePort on page 54 Installing TruePort on your system To install TruePort under Solaris proceed as follows 1 Log in to the UNIX server as root user The UNIX prompt for login is now displayed 2 At the UNIX prompt copy the supplied TruePort package file tpsol110 pkg onto your system into the tmp directory 3 At the UNIX prompt type pkgadd d tmp tpsol110 pkg all The installation now creates the TruePort home directory and installs TruePort and the TruePort Administration Tools for easy editing of the config tp file TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 19 Spe A 12 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Before your system can use the TruePort software you have installed you need to configure your terminal server for example a Perle JETSTREAM
77. rminal servers you require TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 35 12 6 Edit the etc trueport config tp file to change the IP address to NONE for all entries as shown in the next example Before editing dev tpm0 192 168 2 1 10001 30 none dev tpm1 192 168 2 1 10002 30 none dev tpm2 192 168 2 1 10003 30 none After editing dev tpm0 NONE 10001 30 none dev tpm1 NONE 10002 30 none dev tpm2 NONE 10003 30 none 7 Restart the Trueport daemon by killing the tpd process You do this by sending ita SIGHUP for example cd etc trueport kill HUP cat tpd pid This will respawn the daemon and intialize the changes made to the config tp file If you are running a second daemon then also send a SIGHUP to that process by typing kill HUP cat tpd 2nd pid TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 36 cEDEBTE Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Before your system can use the TruePort software you have installed you need to configure your terminal server for example a Perle JETSTREAM 8500 Note All versions of the JETSTREAM 8500 4000 and LANSTREAM 2000 software support TruePort operation However the JETSTREAM 6x series software version must be 4 03 or greater To configure your terminal server to use TruePort proceed as shown in the following exam
78. rs for use with Wyse 60 terminals September 2000 5500030 15 Update of manual to include the AIX operating system June 2001 5500030 16 Re branding manual to new Perle standard October 2001 5500030 17 Update of manual to include the Windows 2000 operating system October 2001 5500030 18 Update of manual to include revised contact information July 2002 5500030 19 Update of manual to include revised procedures under AIX operating system Page 5 PEARSE Fast Contents ABOUT THIS MANUAL 3 REVISION HISTORY sess resides 5 FAST GONTENTS 2 E ee Ea 6 abes E EFT IDE se ee DUAE 7 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 13 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING AND USING TRUEPORT 16 CHAPTER 3 INSTALLING AND USING TRUEPORT LITE 77 CHAPTER 4 QUICK REFERENCE 106 APPENDIX A CONTACTING PERLE 115 PB archaea ey 122 6 Sea 12 Contents ABOUT THIS MANUAL 3 Purpose of this manual 3 Who this manual 3 Using this on line manual uie ries entrano ratur r erre eese rent bds uva 4 Document NAVIGATION
79. rt User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 29 cEDEBTE Installing TruePort under AIX This section tells you how to install TruePort under the AIX operating system and includes the following General setup procedure on page 31 Installing TruePort on your system on page 32 Working with more than 512 ports on page 33 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort on page 34 Configuring your JETSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort on page 37 Adding logins on page 64 Enabling and disabling logins on page 64 Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 66 Removing terminal servers on page 67 Once you have completed basic installation you can perform further operations using TruePort See Using TruePort on page 54 for details Note The AIX serial TTY administration system is built into AIX the user has no control over the tty names generated All the ports will be numbered from the next available device number In general if there are no other defined serial ports in the system the TTY s will be created starting from You can generate a list of available TTY s using the smit tty menu See Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 66 TruePort User guide Installing TruePort Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Page 30 Anz General setup procedure To install and setup the TruePort software on your system proceed as follows
80. ruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F3 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices and press Enter A screen is now displayed listing all the TruePort TTY and printer devices on your system TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 65 Listing the terminal servers on your system To list the terminal servers on your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Manage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell Fi1 Exit Enter Do Adding a terminal 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press the Enter server key The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers Add Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel
81. ry for this terminal in the config tp configuration file tpadm s Function Starts the specified TruePort daemon entry Syntax s portnumber Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server We recommend that you use the range 10000 Example tpadm s 10002 TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands Page 114 12 Appendix A Contacting Perle You need to read You need to read this appendix if you want to contact Perle for technical support or any other this appendix if yu queries about this product want to This appendix includes the following sections Making a technical support query on page 116 Repair procedure on page 119 Feedback about this manual on page 120 Contacting Perle technical support on page 121 Internet access Click here to access the our website at the following URL http www perle com Email Click here to email Perle at the following address Email ptac perle com Page 115 Spe A 12 Making a technical support query This section contains the following information about making a query Who to contact on page 116 Information needed when making a query on page 117 Making a support query via the Perle web page on page 118 Who to contact If you bought your product from a registered Perle supplier you must contact thei
82. se a Hardware Device page is now displayed Add Remove Hardware Wizard Choose a Hardware Device Which hardware device dg 2 In the Choose a Hardware Device page scroll up the list of devices and click on Add a new device then click on the Next gt button The Find New Hardware page is now displayed Add Remove Hardware Wizard Find New Hardware Windows can also detect hardw 3 In the Find New Hardware page select No 1 want to select the hardware from a list and click on the Next gt button The Hardware Type page is now displayed Add Remove Hardware Wizard Hardware Type What type of hardware do you want 4 n the Hardware Type page select Mutli port serial adaptors and click on the Next gt button TruePort User guide Installing TruePort Page 51 Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Spe Ay 12 In this Wizard page Do the following s The Select a Device Driver page is now Add Remove Hardware Wizard displayed Select a Device Driver Which driver do you want to insta 5 In the Select a Device Driver page click on the Have Disk button Select the manufacturer andi A message window is now displayed which have a disk that contains the prompts you for the driver and location you want to use Madah BR 6 In the message window enter or select the Terminal Gener server you want for example Jetstream JetStre
83. serial ports in the system the TTY s will be created starting from You can generate a list of available TTY s using the smit tty menu See Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 103 Note If you are using TruePort with IOLAN terminal servers the configuration process for TruePort and TruePort Lite is identical If you are using TruePort with JETSTREAM terminal servers then TruePort full mode offers additional device control facilities TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 81 Spe Ay 12 General setup procedure To install and setup the TruePort software on your system proceed as follows 1 Install the TruePort onto your system using the procedure described in Installing TruePort Lite on your system on page 82 2 Configure your terminal server to use the TruePort software using the procedure described in Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 83 Note For IOLAN terminal servers see Configuring your IOLAN terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 85 For all other types see page 83 You can now use your TruePort software For details of further options following initial setup and installation see Using TruePort Lite under AIX on page 100 Installing TruePort Lite on your system To install the TruePort Lite device drivers on your system proceed as follows 1 login to your sy
84. server This chapter includes the following sections Installing TruePort Lite on page 78 Using TruePort Lite on page 86 Note The procedures in this manual assume you have made any physical hardware connections required For further information refer to the user documentation supplied with your hardware Note To install and use this product under Windows 2000 see Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort To select Lite mode under Windows 2000 see Adding serial ports on page 70 in Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Page 77 Spe A 12 Installing TruePort Lite The procedure for installing TruePort Lite depends on the operating system you are using See the sections listed below for details Installing TruePort Lite under NCR UNIX on page 79 Installing TruePort Lite under Solaris on page 80 Installing TruePort Lite under SCO OpenServer on page 80 Installing TruePort Lite under AIX on page 81 For information on using TruePort Lite see Using TruePort Lite on page 86 Note To install and use this product under Windows 2000 see Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort To select Lite mode under Windows 2000 see Adding serial ports on page 70 in Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 78 Installing TruePort Lite u
85. sing TruePort Page 63 PEARSE Adding logins When using TruePort under the AIX operating system logins are automatically enabled by default when you add a terminal server See Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort on page 34 Hint To list all of the TTY s created and their TruePort attributes terminal server name or address port number see Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 66 Note The AIX serial TTY administration system is built into AIX the user has no control over the tty names generated All the ports will be numbered from the next available device number In general if there are no other defined serial ports in the system the TTY s will be created starting from tty0 You can generate a list of available TTY s using the smit tty menu See Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 66 Enabling and disabling logins Once you have created tty ports you can enable or disable individual tty ports using the standard AIX tty administration smit menus See your AIX user documentation for details TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 64 Listing TTY and printer devices To list all TruePort TTY and printer devices and show which Terminal Server and TCP IP port they are associated with proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle T
86. ss the Enter key TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 26 cEDEBTE The RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen is now displayed as shown in the next picture Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 10 RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS Copy Interface Parameters Copy Strings Source Channel Source Channels Destination Channels to Destination Channels to Copy Session Parameters Source Channel Destination Channels to Reset Y Channels 2 to 2 ctrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu etrl lt z gt Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 5 Within the RESET COPY CHANNEL PARAMETERS screen a Toggle the Reset parameter to Y and press the Enter key b In the Channels field enter the range of channels you want to update For example 0 to 3 Setthe Accept field to Y and press the Enter key Hint You can also use this screen to copy channel session and string parameters from one channel to another 6 Press the Ctrl and X keys simultaneously to return to the main menu 7 In the main menu select option Configuration The CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 8 In the CONFIGURATION menu select option 2 Internet Protocol Configuration The INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu is now displayed 9 In the INTERNET PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION menu s
87. stem as super user 2 Copy the supplied installable files onto the filesystem of the host computer we recommend tmp You now need to create a drivers disk to do this 3 At the command prompt copy the TruePort package file to a blank floppy disk by typing dd if tmp tpaix300 img of dev fd0 bs 64k and pressing the Enter key 4 At the command prompt type installp acX all and press the Enter key to Install the software The TruePort Lite administrative files and utilities are now installed in the etc trueport directory and the device drivers will be loaded Note You do not need to reboot at this point TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 82 Spe Ay 12 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite Once you have installed the TruePort Lite device drivers and utilities in the etc trueport directory see page 82 you need to configure TruePort Lite using the smit configuration utility for general details of the smit configuration utility refer to your AIX user documentation To do this proceed as follows Hint To list the terminal servers on your system see Listing the terminal servers on your system on page 103 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Hove cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY
88. t 5 ttymond 5 lt port service disabled gt 6 ttymond 6 lt port service disabled gt 7 ttymond X lt port service disabled gt 8 ttumonO 8 lt port service disabled gt 9 ttumonO E lt port service disabled gt 10 ttymond 10 lt port service disabled gt rj Host daedelus 12 Repeat steps 5 to 11 until you have configured all the TruePort serial ports you require TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 59 Removing terminals using Admintool To remove any TruePort serial ports configured as terminals proceed as follows 1 In the Solaris desktop single click on the Application Manager toolbar icon shown in the next picture Double click here to start Application Manager The Application Manager window is now displayed Manager File Selected View Desktop_Apps Desktop_Controls Desktop_Tools System_Admin 2 In the Application Manager window double click on the System_Admin folder The System_Admin window is now displayed Application Manager System_Admin File Selected View fo s i Admintool 3 In the System Admin window double click on the Admintool icon The main Admintool window is now displayed as shown in the next picture TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Using TruePort Page 60 Spe A 12 Admintool Users Of x File Edit Browse Help User
89. t number configured for the port on the remote access server We recommend that you use the range 10000 trueport trueport Enables TruePort mode not TruePort Lite for full device control aux ttyname aux dev term X1p or aux dev ttyX1p ttyname is the TTY name for the printer port This must be the complete path name starting with dev term We recommend that you use the TTY name range XOp X255p term termtype term wy6 termtype is a terminal type listed in the file printcap tp If aux is defined term is required ka seconds ka 30 seconds is the number of seconds to wait on an idle connection before sending a keep alive message trace 1 4 trace 3 1 4 is the trace level for debugging purposes the default is 1 TruePort User guide config tp file syntax Page 111 Chapter 4 Quick reference 12 TruePort Administration commands This section describes the commands and syntax for the TruePort Administration tool Details are listed in the following sections tpadm a p on page 112 t on page 113 tpadm d on page 114 tpadm 5 on page 114 tpadm a p Function Adds a terminal to the specified port number Syntax tpadm a portnumber p ttyname Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access ser
90. t option 3 Channel Strings Configuration The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now displayed TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 24 Spe A 12 Node NoName Thu 01 Jan 1970 00 09 CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION String Space 1854 Channel Nr 2 Channel Name CHAN 02 Welcome String Status User Defined Text None Command Line Prompt Status User Defined Text none Active Session Messages Status Disabled Errors Enabled Connect None Disconnect None Passive Session Messages Status Disabled Connect None Disconnect None Accept L etrl lt a gt Log Off ctrl x Main Menu ctrl lt y gt Previous Menu ctrl z Last Field SYSTEM MSG Enter Y to accept this screen N to reject it 12 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen set the Channel Nr field to the channel number you are working on and press the Enter key The CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen is now updated to show the values for the selected channel 13 In the CHANNEL STRINGS CONFIGURATION screen toggle the parameters detailed in the next table to the values indicated TruePort User guide Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort Installing TruePort Page 25 Spe Ay 12 Parameter Set to Welcome string Status User defined Welcome string Text None Command Line Prompt Status User defined Command Line Prompt Text None Active Session Messag
91. the next table Parameter Action required Hostname or IP address Specify the name or IP address of the terminal server you wish to add Number of ports Enter the number of ports you require Base TCP IP port number Enter the starting TCP IP port number you require for the first port Keep alive timeout seconds Selects how often to probe the port to make sure the port is still connected to the network This is set to 30 by default and normally doesn t need user adjustment Enable logins now Enable the logins on all ports you have created Default value YES If you leave the Enable logins now field as YES the port devices will be created and enabled for login A block of tty port devices is now added to the AIX system Once a terminal server has been added you can add further terminal servers list terminal servers or delete terminal servers 5 Repeat steps 2 to 4 of this procedure until you have added all the terminal servers you require TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 84 Spe A 12 Configuring your IOLAN terminal server to use TruePort Lite To configure an IOLAN terminal server for TruePort Lite proceed as follows Note This product uses the dedicated virtual circuit mode on the IOLAN serial ports Please note this is different to the configuration for IOLAND 1 Install the IOLAN termi
92. uide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 103 Removing terminal servers To remove a terminal server from your system proceed as follows 1 At the command prompt type smit C trueport and press the Enter key The Perle TruePort menu is now displayed Perle TruePort Hove cursor to desired item and press Enter List all TruePort TTY and Printer devices Hanage Terminal Servers Manage TTY Devices Manage Printer Devices Delete all TruePort Devices Fi Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image FS Shell 10 Enter Do 2 Within the Perle TruePort menu select Manage Terminal servers and press Enter The Manage Terminal Servers menu screen is now displayed Manage Terminal Servers Move cursor to desired item and press Enter List all Terminal Servers Terminal Server Remove Terminal Server F1 Help F2 Refresh F3 Cancel F8 Image F9 Shell F10 Exit Enter Do 3 Within the Manage Terminal Servers menu select Remove Terminal Server and press the Enter key A screen showing a list of terminal servers is now displayed 4 Within the list screen select the item you want to remove from the list and press the Enter key A popup screen is now displayed asking you to confirm removal 5 Within the popup select yes and press the Enter key The selected terminal server is now removed from the list TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Usi
93. uired See Installing TruePort Lite under AIX on page 81 and Using TruePort Lite under AIX on page 100 TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Installing TruePort Lite Page 85 Spe Ay 12 Using TruePort Lite The procedure for using TruePort Lite depends on the operating system you are using See the sections listed below for details Using TruePort Lite under NCR UNIX Solaris and SCO OpenServer on page 87 Using TruePort Lite under AIX on page 100 For information on installing TruePort Lite see Installing TruePort Lite on page 78 Note To install and use this product under Windows 2000 see Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort To select Lite mode under Windows 2000 see Adding serial ports on page 70 in Chapter 2 Installing and using TruePort TruePort User guide Chapter 3 Installing and using TruePort Lite Using TruePort Lite Page 86 Seay 12 Using TruePort Lite under NCR UNIX Solaris and SCO OpenServer This section tells you how to use TruePort Lite and includes the following General procedure for using TruePort Lite on page 88 Configuring your terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 89 Configuring your LINKSTREAM terminal server to use TruePort Lite on page 91 Adding ports to the config tp file on page 97 Enabling ports for transparent printing on page 98 Deleting ports on page 98 Starting a port without re booting the UNIX server on pag
94. ver We recommend that you use the range 10000 ttyname is the TTY name for the port We recommend that you use the name range X0 X255 Example a 10003 p TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands Page 112 Spe A 12 tpadm a p t Function Adds a terminal to the specified port number and enables transparent printing for that terminal Syntax a portnumber p ttyname t termtype Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server We recommend that you use the range 10000 ttyname is the TTY name for the port We recommend that you use the name range X0 X255 termtype is a terminal type listed in the file printcap tp If aux is defined term is required Example a 10003 p t vt100 TruePort User guide Chapter 4 Quick reference TruePort Administration Tool tpadm commands Page 113 Spe A 12 tpadm d Function Removes the terminal at the specified port number Syntax d portnumber Where portnumber is the TCP IP port number configured for the port on the remote access server We recommend that you use the range 10000 Example tpadm d 10003 Note The port number you use must exist in the config tp configuration file When you remove a terminal using this command it does not stop the software running it just deletes the ent

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