Xerox 180 IPS manual Defining the IPS printer to the host, Software licensing

INSTALLATION

Defining the IPS printer to the host

Prior to installation of your IPS printer, your host system must be configured to communicate with and print on the IPS. This requires defining several printer parameters to your host. The required information and configuration procedures differ according to your connectivity type (channel or TCP/IP), and your host and PSF environment. You will need to provide these parameters to your Xerox representative on installation day.

There are two appendices in this guide which provide printer configuration procedures and the parameters you must define in order to configure PSF to make a connection with your IPS. One appendix discusses channel-attached environments; the other appendix provides information for environments in which the IPS uses TCP/IP to communicate via Ethernet or Token Ring. Parameters are given for MVS mainframes, AS/400, RS/6000 running AIX, and PS/2 or other personal computers running OS/2.

Software licensing

When an IPS is purchased, the owner needs to receive a license to use the operating system software. Once a user calls in with a host ID, (Sun SPARC/Ultra host ID), the user receives a license string.

Refer to the “Setting up the printer controller” chapter in the Guide to Configuring and Managing the System (section titled “Loading the IPS software license text stream”).

This license is enabled by entering a 20-character authorization text string at the printer controller keyboard. Your Xerox service representative obtains this license text string for you and enters it when your IPS is installed.

Until this license string is entered, your IPS cannot receive data from the host to print. You can power on and boot the system, and perform all offline tasks such as setting up input and output configurations, but the IPS remains in Disabled mode and cannot print.

Although your service representative usually does this for you, you also can enter your license string, by selecting IPS Authorization Enablement from the Administration pulldown menu on the IPS main window. Refer to the Guide to Configuring and Managing the System, “Setting up the printer controller” chapter, for the procedure.

Note: If your system will be operating in Dual Mode, it requires two

license strings: one for IPS and one for NPS.

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