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Chapter 10 The menu interface
User
The User section defines various user parameters such as name and terminal type. Most
fields are used in this section.
A full description is given below:
Option Description
Name This field defines the user name of this port on IOLAN+. Any string of
up to 14 characters can be entered. This name is displayed on the top
left hand corner of the menu screens. It is also listed in the statistics
screens so that the administrator can see who is using each port. If
this field is left blank then a user is prompted for their user name
before being given access to the communications server menus. This
field is also passed to the host when using telnet or rlogin. Default is
blank.
Terminal type This field defines the type of terminal that is attached to this port. The
possible values are undef (undefined), ansi, dumb, vt100, vt320,
wyse50, wyse60, tvi925, ibm3151, vt320, falco, hp700. Press the
space bar to toggle through these values. If none of these are
applicable then the CLI mode can be used. When an rlogin
connection is made, the unit passes this terminal type to the host
machine. Default is blank.
TERM This field can contain up to 8 characters. If this field is filled in, IOLAN+
sends this string as the terminal type, instead of the field above. This
allows the user to pass through IOLAN+ an unsupported terminal type
or addition identity information for security. Default is blank.
Video pages This field defines how many video pages the terminal in question has.
If this value is set greater than zero IOLAN+ uses the video pages on
the terminal to allow it to refresh screens between session switching.
Not all terminals support video pages (mainly Wyse 60’s). Default is 0.
CLI/Menu This field defines whether IOLAN+ is using the CLI or the menu
interface. If the terminal is configured for menu interface but the
terminal type is undefined or dumb, then the unit remains in the CLI.
Default will be Menu.
Reset Term This field defines whether the terminal type should be reset when a
user logs out. This is a very useful feature when the port is connected
to a modem. When a user logs out of IOLAN+ it resets the terminal
type to dumb, so the next person starts off in CLI mode and is able to
set the terminal type correctly. Default is No.