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Terminal and Printer Proﬁles

What is a Proﬁle

A proﬁle is a group of device connection speciﬁcations and

characteristics that can be associated with devices. Proﬁles can be

associated with terminals, printers, PAD terminals and printers, and

UPSs.

The word proﬁle is used in two different contexts in this chapter. When

a ldev is conﬁgured on the MPE/iX system, a proﬁle name is associated

with each ldev. This association is conﬁgured on the DTC Card

Conﬁguration screens. The information in the proﬁle name describes

the characteristics of the ldev on the system and in the DTC. The

information conﬁgured in the proﬁle name is speciﬁed on the proﬁle

screens in NMMGR.

When a PAD ldev is conﬁgured, there is also a PAD proﬁle number or

value that describes certain parameters of the connection between the

PAD and the X.25 card in the DTC. These additional PAD parameters

are set within the proﬁle name associated with the PAD ldev. The PAD

Terminal Proﬁle section describes these PAD parameters. See the Table

in this chapter that lists the PAD proﬁle numbers that are available.

The sample conﬁguration ﬁle on the HP 3000 Series 900 supplies

several terminal and printer proﬁles. You may create your own proﬁles,

or modify those provided. This chapter contains a table that lists the

terminal, printer, and PAD proﬁles supplied in the sample

conﬁguration ﬁle.

Proﬁle Name

Each proﬁle is identiﬁed by a proﬁle name. The name can be up to eight

characters long and must start with a letter followed by letters and

numbers. At any one time, up to 1000 proﬁles can be conﬁgured per

system.

The proﬁles supplied by the HP 3000 conﬁguration ﬁle follow a naming

convention. For example, TR10D96 denotes a terminal proﬁle (TR) of

terminal type 10 (10), for direct connect (D), with line speed of 9600 bps

(96). Printer proﬁles starts with PR, such as PR18D96. The standard

UPS proﬁle is UP10D12 where (UP) denotes an HP PowerTrust UPS.

Terminal Proﬁles

Terminal proﬁles deﬁne the characteristics of DTC ldevs that are

connected to terminals, PCs running terminal emulators, and UPSs.

Devices that use these proﬁles are usually connected directly to the

DTC ports or are connected through a modem over a phone line.