FieldServer FS-8704-11 User Manual

A Sierra Monitor Company

Driver Manual

(Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual)

FS-8704-11 Telnet

APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY

Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001

Driver Version 1.00b

Document revision Rev 1

FS-8704-11 Telnet Driver Manual Index

Table of Contents

1.

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 1

2. CONFIGURING THE TELNET DRIVER.............................................................................2

3. OPTIONAL CONFIGURATION ITEMS ..............................................................................3

3.1. AUTOCONNECT PORT ..................................................................................................... 3

3.2. AUTOCONNECT MODE ....................................................................................................3

3.3. LOGIN ............................................................................................................................ 3

3.4. TIMEOUT ........................................................................................................................3

4. USING THE SERIAL PORT CAPTURE ............................................................................. 4

4.1. MANUAL SERIAL PORT CAPTURE ....................................................................................4

4.2. AUTOCONNECT SERIAL PORT CAPTURE AND MULTIPLE TELNET SESSIONS ......................5

5. SETTING THE LINEFEED OPTIONS ................................................................................5

6. SETTING THE ECHO OPTION ..........................................................................................5

7. SETTING THE TAB OPTION .............................................................................................5

8. SETTING THE VERBOSE OPTION ................................................................................... 5

9. RUNNING SERIAL PROTOCOLS OVER TELNET USING VIRTUAL PORTS ................. 6

10. LIMITATIONS .....................................................................................................................6

11. REVISION HISTORY ..........................................................................................................6

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1. Introduction

The Telnet driver allows a user to connect to the FieldServer using a standard Telnet client
(such as the Windows Telnet client). A command prompt is provided which allows the user to
request specific driver functions. Presently, the following functions are implemented:

1. help / ?: lists available commands and states their functions.

2. port: this allows the user to take over a serial port.

3. linefeed: this allows the user to control sending and receiving of line feeds in association
with carriage returns.

4. echo: allows the user to determine whether characters typed into the Telnet terminal
should be echoed by the FieldServer.

5. verbose: allows the user to determine the level of detail of diagnostic messages.

6. tab: allows the user to select substitution of received tab characters by space characters

The driver will support up to 5 concurrent Telnet sessions but will not allow two sessions to
control the same serial port.

FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web:www.fieldserver.com

Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] Toll_Free: 888-509-1970 email: [e-mail]