Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual System console and maintenance console

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System console and maintenance console

You can use a customer-supplied console to enter OA&M commands to the IPE Module or the Application Module. The console should be an asynchronous ASCII terminal that is 100 percent compatible with ANSI and DEC VT220. You can use an IBM-compatible personal computer running Reflection 4+.

An NT1R03D cable connects the customer-supplied console to the IPE Module. An NT7D61 External I/O cable or a customer-supplied 9-pin-to- 25-pin cable connects the customer-supplied console to the Application Module. Refer to Chapter 9, ÒMeridian Link/CCR interface cablingÓ for more information.

If you configure the optional conshare capability available to an IPE Module or an Application Module, you can access the Meridian 1 input/output programs from the Meridian Link console.

Meridian Link administration and maintenance

As a Meridian Link administrator, you can use commands to do the following:

¥enable and disable the link between the host and the IPE Module or the Application Module (link 1), the link between the IPE Module or the Application Module and the Meridian 1 (link 0), and the link between the IPE Module or the Application Module and Meridian Mail (link 2)

¥configure link 0, link 1, and link 2

¥display the status of a link or all links

¥display protocol statistics for a link

¥trace messages flowing on the links

¥display messages flowing on the links on the system console

¥filter particular messages

Meridian Link Release 5C/CCR Release 3C Installation and Upgrade Guide