LAT Terminal Server Manager for Ultrix

[George Robbins]

In article <1989Aug16.233014.9741 at acd4.UUCP> mjb at acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          ) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of a software package which would allow an Ultrix
> host to maintain and control the setup of DECservers?  We would like
> to keep the database of all port/server settings from many
> DECserver-200s on our VAX, in order to make management easier, and
> allow easy recovery from failed or accidentally-initialized
> DECservers.  The 'ccr(8)' command can't even be used as a rough
> interface, as it seems to expect interactive use only.

As far as I know there is nothing available to do this...

> ... (DEC does provide a Terminal Server Manager product for VMS,
> but not Ultrix.  *Sigh*)

This seems to be one of those areas, where for all the polite noises DEC
makes about equal time for VMS and Ultrix, they have decided not to support
certain functionality, excpept on a VMS platform.

Not only is there no support for a TSM function, DEC doesn't seem to want
to admit that the DECSA or DECserver 5XX series exist in the Ultrix world.
I think you can actually do a downline load for a DECSA if you've prepared
the image on a VMS system, but nothing in the manuals admits this and the
silly dsvconfig script has the DS100 vs DS200 choice hardwired in

Of course, the how to do whatever ccr(8) does is something that DEC has
chosen not to document.  This may not be so horrible, I've been looking
at what lpd does to dynamically attach LAT connections, and it's gross!
It's not a simple "lat_atttach" system call, rather there's a bunch of
procedureal gruk that reflects that fact that LAT is neither TCP nor
DECnet, rather it's more of a do-it-yourself talk direct to the ethernet
I/F hack, which, like DECnet, is sort of grafted onto the Unix networking
while remaining it's own rather perverse view of the world...

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