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DT-6061 User's Manual - Platform (Build 17.1)
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maintenance. Finally, the physical location of these printers may not be convenient, due to
requirements implied by their legacy interfaces.
The IP-SPOOL application provides print spooling per RFC1179 to a shared print resource. It
provides the ability to route print output to a shared printer anywhere in the IP network. It reduces
the overall cost associated with legacy interfaces by eliminating underutilized, dedicated
equipment and its maintenance.
One DT-6061 or DT-6160, running the IP-SPOOL application, supports up to 30 units that can
share a common physical printer. (The DT-6260 can support 48.) The actual number is
dependent on the utilization of the previously dedicated printers and the print speed of the shared
printer. More than one DT-6XXX could share the same physical printer also.
11.10 IP-VCON
There is a need to deal with the multitude of console connections in modern networks. These
consoles may be physical consoles, or logical connections via (B)X.25 logical channel
connections, Telnet connections, etc. There is a need to monitor those consoles autonomously
and unobtrusively.
The IP-VCON application takes over the mundane task of monitoring a large and various set of
consoles autonomously, collecting the most important console messages, and intervening
automatically when necessary according to user-defined scripts. When an administrator wishes to
access any device console directly, the IP-VCON application provides the necessary connectivity
without interrupting the monitoring function.
The IP-VCON application attaches via a TCP connection to any
console , whether network based
or physical. The protocol used by the console is unimportant. The application will monitor that
console, take action on exceptions as needed, and provide a single means to access every
console on and off the network. The application is eternally vigilant and will notify when a
console
indicates a problem situation. It can even determine an outage of equipment and cause
appropriate actions to be executed.
The IP-VCON application can monitor and administer up to 768 consoles.
Via the application, each console may be monitored and administered by multiple human network
administrators. Sixty-four administrators may be defined, and sixteen of these can be
simultaneously accessing the application. Each administrator has its own login and password for
access to the application. Each administrator has his its own list of consoles to which he/she is
permitted access. As stated above, even if no administrators are logged onto the application, the
application keeps track of what is happening for later use by an administrator and may take
appropriate action in the interim.
11.11 MULTIMATE
There has always been a need to share the precious resources of certain network elements. With
some protocols, this was accomplished by using a port-sharing device and a spider network of
cabling. Other more complicated protocols required an external PAD and even more cabling.
Although the expense was high, there was no other way to share a resource.
The MultiMate application was designed to eliminate the wasteful expense of external PADs and
port-sharing devices. In addition, strategies for redundancy and disaster recovery become
available through the judicious use of MultiMate.