CP6100 I/O Process Programming Manual

Using CP6100: Managing Lines
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND LINE CONFIGURATION
Before any application can use a CP6100 line, you have to install
the system software and describe the line to the system. This
procedure entails the following steps, taken in sequence:
1. Prepare a SYSGEN configuration file to describe the 6100
subsystems, the supporting software (like CSM), and the
CP6100 lines.
2. Use SYSGEN to create a new system image from the files
on the Site Update Tape (SUT), and to load that image
into the NonStop System.
3. Use the FUP GIVE and SECURE commands and the CMI ALTER
command to define the group of users who can control
CP6100 lines--for example, who can start and stop lines
or change their configuration.
Once you've taken these steps, you can start the lines for
applications to use.
| Other manuals discuss each of the above steps in detail. The
| System Management Manual for Tandem NonStop Systems discusses
| steps 1 and 2, the GUARDIAN Operating System Utilities Reference
| Manual describes the FUP commands, and the Communications
| Management Interface (CMI) Operator's Guide discusses CMP
| security, i.e., the way you restrict control of data
communication lines. The next few pages give an overview of the
installation and configuration process, with a few guidelines and
warnings to help you along.
The Configuration File
| DUAL-PORT CONTROLLERS. To add a communication subsystem having
| dual-port controllers to a NonStop System and define the CP6100
lines attached to the subsystem, you make the following additions
to the configuration file:
• Define the 6101 controllers in the CONTROLLERS paragraph.
Indicate the CPUs to which each controller will be attached,
and assign a subchannel address to each controller. Both
controllers in a subsystem must be attached to the same pair
of CPUs; they can have the same primary CPU, or each can
have a different primary. (You list the CPUs in order:
primary, secondary.) The subchannel address for each
controller must be divisible by 32 (%40); the controller
occupies 32 addresses, beginning with the one specified.
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