Managing Your Access Server As a LAT Node Offering a Service

Example: SHOW SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS Display

The following example below shows how to generate a service characteristics display for the service named PRINTER:

Local> SHOW SERVICE PRINTER CHARACTERISTICS

Service: PRINTER

Identification: Printer Ports to PEACH

Ports: 1-3, 5, 7

Rating: 255

Enabled Characteristics:

Connections, Password, Queuing

Local>

SHOW/LIST/MONITOR SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS Display Fields

The following table describes the fields displayed in the service characteristics display:

Field

Description

 

 

Service

Name that identifies the network service.

Identification

Service identification string. This string is usually a

 

short description of the service or of how to use it.

The following fields are displayed only for services offered by the access server (local services):

Ports

Numbers of the ports at which the local service is

 

offered.

 

Rating

Rating at which the access server offers this service.

 

If any ports that offer the service are available, the

 

rating is proportional to the number of available ports.

 

If no ports are available that offer the service and if

 

queuing is enabled for the service, the rating is

 

proportional to the number of unused positions in the

 

connection queue.

 

Enabled characteristics

Characteristics that can be enabled with the

 

CHANGE SERVICE command. The access server

 

displays only those characteristics that are enabled for

 

local services.

 

 

Connections

Access server allows

 

 

connections to this

 

 

service.

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