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COMSPHERE 6800 Series Network Management System
Installation and Maintenance Guide (6800-A2-GN22-20)
The changes or modifications in this manual occur in Chapters 2 and 5. Highlights of these
changes are as follows:
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For the AT&T Globalyst 575 hardware used as the full-feature and basic-feature
workstations, these release notes contain the description of the hardware and installation,
configuration and cache disable instructions for workstations running Whitepine Exodus
software. Instructions are also included for 575 full-feature workstations running
eXceed
t 4 software.
•
For the AT&T Globalyst 520 hardware used as the full-feature and basic-feature
workstations, these release notes contain the description of the hardware and configuration
instructions for 520 full-feature workstations running eXceed 4 software.
•
Included are instructions for installing Whitepine
r Exodus software. Revised procedures are
provided in these release notes for using Exodus with the existing Altos 486 hardware.
•
Added are instructions for installing and configuring both SuperTCP
t Version 4 software
and eXceed 4 software.
•
Included are preinstallation checks for the Paradise
r Video Card.
•
Changed for existing X-One users is the current procedure in the Installing the Token Ring
Software on the Full-Feature Workstation section. The revised procedure is the same for
both X-One and Exodus users and is provided on page 80.
Chapter 2
Using Workstations with AT&T Globalyst Hardware
Both the AT&T Globalyst 575 and the AT&T Globalyst 520 are used as basic-feature and
full-feature workstations for the COMSPHERE 6800 Series NMS. The Globalyst hardware
includes the Intel
r i486r DX2 66 MHz CPU with 8 Mb RAM and is configured with the
following:
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One 348 Mb DTE hard disk and one 3.5
I 1.44 Mb diskette drive.
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17
I high resolution monitor.
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1 Mb video DRAM (upgradable to 2 Mb), S3 Vision 864 Graphic chip with a maximum
resolution of 1280 * 1024 (for some Globalyst 575 full-feature workstation configurations,
the ATI Graphics Ultra+
t video card is pre-installed).
•
Connectors for two serial devices, one parallel device, PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 two-button
mouse.
ATI and Graphics Ultra+ are a trademarks of ATI Technologies, Inc.
eXceed is a trademark of Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
i486 and Intel are registered trademarks and EtherExpress is a trademark of Intel Corporation.
Paradise is a registered trademark of Western Digital Corporation.
SuperTCP is a trademark of Frontier Technologies Corporation.
Whitepine is a registered trademark of White Pine Software, Inc.
