Specifications

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Printing Administration
Installing the physical ASCII terminal
To install the physical ASCII terminal:
1. Review all relevant installation planning information and the terminal’s documentation to
ensure that you have the components required for installation.
2. Review your system’s configuration, and select the serial port.
3. Ensure that the communications port is not in use.
4. Connect the terminal to the serial communications port. Be sure to use proper cabling.
Consult your documentation for cabling instructions.
5. Configure the terminal according to the documentation provided with it. Be sure to record
the settings you choose for baud rate, stop bits, bits per character, and flow control. You
will need this information to configure the base operating system tty device driver.
Configuring the terminal device driver (tty)
To configure the tty:
1. Log on as the root user.
2. At the system prompt, enter:
Devices
In the Web–based System Manager Devices window, use the menus to complete the
steps to configure the terminal device driver.
3. Select the Add a TTY option and the tty type.
4. Provide additional information as prompted such as the configuration settings you made
on your terminal at installation. If you are not sure of the port number IDs, press the F4
key to display a list of available IDs. Be sure to enter the correct TERMINAL type. When
you have entered all configuration information, press Enter.
You can also perform this task with the SMIT fast path smit tty.
Verifying terminal output
After you have configured the terminal device, enter the following to verify that the terminal
is working and to send output directly to the terminal screen:
cat /etc/qconfig > /dev/tty nn
where nn is the appropriate tty device number. The contents of the /etc/qconfig file should
appear on the terminal screen.
Installing the physical printer
To install the physical printer:
1. Review all relevant installation planning information and the printer’s documentation to
ensure that you have the required components and information to install the printer.
2. Review the terminal documentation for information on connecting printers to the auxiliary
(AUX) port.
3. Verify that the AUX port on the terminal is configured with the same settings as your
printer, such as baud rate, parity, data bits, stop bits, and XON/XOFF.
– For information about setting values for the AUX port, consult your terminal
documentation.
– For information about configuring the printer’s serial interface, consult your printer
documentation.
4. Connect the printer to the terminal’s AUX port. Be sure to use the proper cabling.
Consult your documentation for cabling instructions.