Specifications

OPS Manager Installation and Maintenance Guide

Printing maintenance information from network

elements

Information from remote network elements can be viewed and printed from the OPS

Manager station. The output is stored in a temporary file. After all the output has been

collected, the file is sent to the printer. The following guidelines apply:

• The behavior is NOT exactly the same as when printing the output through the auxiliary

port on-site. The output is first collected and then sent to the printer so that there will be

a delay. When the user uses “ENABLE PRINT” with the “NONQUEUED” option, the

output is temporarily stored at the OPS Manager station and the user must enter

<CTRL> C before the output is actually sent to the OPS Manager printer.

• Do not print when multiple terminals are accessing the same port.

• The VT100 printing rate is controlled by the VT100 terminal auxiliary port speed. This

rate is more apparent in a cluster where the local VT100 maintenance terminal is

always active. The hardware was designed in such a way that the characters are

received by both the local and remote maintenance terminals.

• To maximize VT100 printing throughput, set the local terminal auxiliary port speed to its

highest baud rate. When a local printer is attached to the local maintenance terminal,

the VT100 printing rate is controlled by the printer speed. In this case printing will occur

at both the local and remote end. This dual printing may not be desired.

Printing CDE forms

From OPS Manager, you can print an SX-2000 element’s CDE forms to its LPR3 printer.

LPR3 is a system port connected through the element’s maintenance terminal.

1. Access the desired SX-2000 network element’s maintenance port.

2. In the maintenance session window, log into maintenance mode.

3. From the Specific menu, click Capture on.

The Print Dialog Box<Subscript> appears. Select the printer (or file) to which the output

is to be printed and press the appropriate button. The dialog box disappears.

4. Enter FORMPRINT followed by the name of the CDE form that is to be printed and the

printer port. For example, to print the Telephone Directory form from port LPR3, enter

FORMPRINT Telephone Directory /PORT LPR3

The maintenance session window displays:

FORMPRINT: Request is in progress.

5. To view LPR3’s print job queue, enter SHOW PRINT LPR3

The maintenance session window displays: