Configuring Systems for Terminals, Printers, and Other Serial Devices (32022-90051)

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Before Configuring Terminal and Printer Connections
Defining the DTC Connector Cards (or Boards)
called nailed devices. Printers and UPSs, as well as
devices that will be programmatically accessed, must
be nailed devices. Each nailed ldev number assigned in
NMMGR must be unique.
If the DTC management is PC-based (that is, managed
by an OpenView Windows Workstation), you may have
ports without ldev numbers assigned to them; hence
they are non-nailed devices. Non-nailed devices have
ldev numbers that are assigned from a pool of available
ldev numbers for the duration of the device connection
to the system. Terminals are examples of non-nailed
devices for PC-based management.
Terminal and
Printer Profiles
Each port needs a profile assigned to it. A profile
defines a set of characteristics for a terminal, printer, or
another serial device. A profile can be of five types: a
terminal profile,aPAD terminal profile,aprinter
profile, PAD printer profile,orahost profile. Refer
to Chapter 7, “Terminal and Printer Profiles,” for more
information on the profiles that are supplied in the
sample configuration file.
If the characteristics provided in the sample profiles
are different from those required by the terminals and
printers connected to your DTCs, then you can define
new profiles.
It is suggested that you use default profiles TR10D96
for direct connect terminals and PR18D96 for direct
connect printers or PR22D24 for HP printers with
status checking.For PAD terminals and printer, use the
defaults TR24PAD and PR26PAD, respectively. For
UPSs, use the default profile UP10D12.
The name of the profile can be up to eight characters
long and must start with a letter, followed by letters
and numbers. At any one time, up to 1024 profiles can
be configured per system.