Terminal Interface
Access-T can be controlled via a VT100 or TV 925 terminal. The ASCII Terminal
Interface features a Title Bar, Main Menu Line, and Menu and Report Display
Area. The Title Bar is a one-line, 80-character-wide status bar at the top of the
terminal display. Below the Title Bar are the Main Menu Line and the Menu and
Report Display Area. From the Main Menu Line, a series of drop-down menus
can be called up and displayed in the Menu and Report Display Area. The
operator uses single keys on the terminal keyboard to move up and down the
menu branches, select parameters, scroll through options, and enter choices.
By selecting commands from the Terminal Interface menus, operators can config-
ure Access-T, display performance and alarm reports, clear registers, define pass-
words, perform diagnostics, etc. Performance and alarm displays fit within one
21-line screen, always displayed below the Title Bar and Main Menu Line.
The Terminal Interface, described in detail in Chapter 5, can be accessed via the
Supervisory and Craft Ports. Automatic dialout to report alarms is supported
only via the Supervisory Port.
TABS Interface
The modified TABS Interface allows an NMS to control configuration, performance
reporting, and diagnostics, and to receive unsolicited alarm reports from Access-T.
It also allows a master Access-T to control slave Access-Ts as described later in this
chapter.
The TABS Interface is supported by the Craft and Supervisory Ports as well as
the Chain Port. The Craft and Supervisory Ports automatically distinguish
between TABS and Terminal Interface commands.
The TABS commands for this “machine-to-machine” interface are described in
the Access-T TABS Interface Manual, ACST-0731-00x.
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Access-T Functional Overview
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