Specifications

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Conﬁguring and Managing Interactive Devices

A user with privileges set can use the privileged BROADCAST ALL command to

send a message to all interactive users.

Example: BROADCAST ALL

The following example shows a sample of a message broadcasted to all users:

Local> BROADCAST ALL "Server shut down at 12:15; back up at 1:00."

At a port with a session management terminal, broadcast messages are delivered

to the current terminal session.

The factory-set default allows port users to send broadcast messages. Use the

following command if you do not wish users to send broadcast messages:

Local> CHANGE SERVER BROADCAST DISABLED

Ask users to inform you if they receive excessive or annoying broadcasts from

other ports. If you receive complaints about such broadcasts, you can ask the

sender of those broadcasts to stop broadcasting unnecessary messages, or you can

enable security on the sender’s port. This disables the BROADCAST command

for the port.

Specifying LOSS NOTIFICATION

The LOSS NOTIFICATION characteristic signals a port user when characters

entered by the user are lost, because of parity errors, framing errors, data

overruns, or other reasons. The signal is a BEL character (an audible beeping

sound), which the access server transmits to the port for each character that is lost.

The factory-set default is enabled.

Example: Disabling LOSS NOTIFICATION

The following example shows how to disable LOSS NOTIFICATION on port 5:

Local> CHANGE PORT 5 LOSS NOTIFICATION DISABLED

Messages warning that the access server is going to initialize are unaffected by the

access server-wide BROADCAST characteristic.

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