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10.3 Installing a Terminal as an Alternate System Console
10.3 Installing a Terminal as an Alternate System Console
The system console displays error messages and other system messages from
the workstation, from networks, and from the worksystem software. You also
use the system console to enter console commands, such as the cnfg command.
You generally use your workstation monitor in console mode as the
system console. If a monitor is not available, you can use a terminal as
an alternate system console. A terminal can display text only; it cannot display
illustrations, DECwindows, or DECwindows applications; therefore, you cannot
use a terminal as a standard workstation monitor. Some users prefer to
connect both a monitor and a terminal to their workstations. In console mode,
with both a monitor and a terminal configured, the monitor screen displays
graphics tests while the terminal screen displays other tests and text input.
The following instructions describe how to install a terminal and keyboard as a
system console.
Contact your Customer Support Center if you have questions about using a
terminal.
10.3.1 To Install a Terminal as a System Console
1. Follow the instructions that came with your worksystem software to shut
down the software.
2. Turn off the system unit by pressing the O on the On/Off switch on the
back of the system unit.
3. Plug a communications connector adapter into one of the serial
communications connectors on the system unit (communications port 3
is preferred).
4. Find the terminal-to-system-unit cable that came with your terminal.
Notice that it has telephone-jack-type connectors on both ends.
Plug one end of the terminal-to-system-unit cable into the communications
connector adapter (see Figure 10–1).
5. Plug the other end of the terminal-to-system-unit cable into the modular
connector on the back of the terminal.
10–4 Using the Console Commands