Troubleshooting Terminal, Printer, and Serial Device Connections - Edition 5 (32022-90058)

Preface

This manual documents functionality for the MPE/iX release for HP 3000 Series 900.

This manual is designed to aid the troubleshooting of device connections. Information

and strategies for troubleshooting networking environments is provided. TermDSM is a

utility program used to troubleshoot:

• Terminal connections.

• Printer connections.

• Other serial device connections.

This manual only covers troubleshooting connections for host-based management (i.e.,

when the DTCs are managed from an HP 3000 host). For troubleshooting on

PC-management (when DTCs are managed by an OpenView Workstation), refer to

Using HP OpenView DTC Manager.

NOTE MPE/iX, Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX, is the latest in a series of

forward-compatible operating systems for the H P3000 line of computers.

In HP documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will encounter references

to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX. MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL. All

programs written for MPE XL will run without change under MPE/iX. You can continue

to use MPE XL system documentation, although it may not refer to features added to the

operating system to support POSIX (for example, hierarchical directories).

Finally, you may encounter references to MPE V, which is the operating system for HP

3000s, not based on the PA-RISC architecture. MPE V software can be run on the

PA-RISC HP 3000s (Series 900) in what is known as compatibility mode.