TN3270 Server Manual

Introduction to the Guardian TN3270 Server

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Guardian TN3270 Server Environment

This section describes typical Guardian TN3270 Server environments.

Figure 1-2

shows the environment of a simple Guardian TN3270 Server environment.

Each copy of the Guardian TN3270 Server accesses a single TCP/IP process. This

results in several possible configurations.

The simplest configuration is the one shown in Figure 1-2

, which provides access to a

single application through a single TCP/IP process. You can configure up to four

Ethernet subnets, four SNAP subnets, and four X25AM subnets per TCP/IP process. For

details on configuring TCP/IP, refer to the Tandem TCP/IP Configuration and

Management Manual.

You also can run multiple copies of the Guardian TN3270 Server against a single

TCP/IP process to provide more than 1000 sessions or to provide access to different

applications. For example, one copy of the Guardian TN3270 Server could provide

Figure 1-2. Simple Guardian TN3270 Server Environment

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Guardian System

Workstation

3270

Application

Guardian

TN3270 Server

($TN32)

TCP/IP

($ZTC0)

Ethernet LAN

TLAM

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TN3270

Client