3.3

2 Connect Services
Connect services are utilities you can set up to enable iNEWS users to connect to other
computers or information services over the network, such as a remote console for your
iNEWS newsroom computer system.
This chapter contains the following main sections:
• Network Services
• Adding System Services
• Console Connect Sessions
Network Services
It is useful to set up a service to let you connect to your iNEWS Servers. For instance, setting
up network remote connect services lets you perform many administrative tasks from your
iNEWS Workstation rather than from the console.
Dialogs for Connect Services
A dialog is a script that tells the service what prompts to expect from the device it connects
to, and provides the service with appropriate responses for each prompt. Using any service
involves some routine activities, such as logging in, that you do each time you use that
service. You can create a dialog for any service to handle these routine activities.
Building a Dialog
This section explains how to design and create a simple dialog that logs a user in to an
information service. Once logged in, the dialog yields control to the user until he/she is
ready to close the connection. Then the dialog logs the user out of the service and closes the
connection.
When you design a dialog, it is helpful to turn on the
capture connect command and
perform the procedure you want to incorporate into the dialog. This way, steps in that
procedure are captured to a story that you can refer to while designing the dialog; each line
in the dialog is built as a line of the story.