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Serial Lines for Emulated Systems
Most emulated HP3000 and HP9000 models models emulated by Charon-PAR have two serial lines (LDev 20 and 21). One of these emulated lines is mapped to the serial console, the other to a second serial port. Some models may have more serial lines. Please refer to Emulated Model Hardware Configuration Details for more information.
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| Serial port option | Description |
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| type | The serial port type determines the protocol used on the serial port. Possible values are:
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| port | Each port is mapped to a TCP socket on the emulator host or to a physical line. This parameter defines the port number used or the name of the physical device. The port number must be unique among all active port numbers on the host system. A port number is specified as: Default values:
A physical device is specified as " Example:
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| command | This parameter is optional. It can be used to specify a terminal emulation program that is started automatically when the emulated system is started. Charon-HPA PAR provides preconfigured profiles for PuTTY (HPA-Socket HPA-Telnet HPA-Telnet-VT100) that can be used to connect to the emulated system via a serial line. |
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The configuration file templates contain the following default configurations:
| Line | HP3000 | HP9000Charon-PA3 | Charon-PA9 |
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| Emulated serial console on port 30000 using the telnet protocol. PuTTY started automatically with preconfigured profile. | |||
| 1 | serial.uart0.device.type="telnet"serial.uart0.device.port=":30000"serial.uart0.device.command="putty -load HPA-Telnet" |
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| Emulated second serial line in raw mode on port 30002. | |||
| 2 | serial.uart2.device.type="socket"serial.uart2.device.port=":30002" | serial.uart2.device.type="socket"serial.uart2.device.port=":30002" | |
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Stromasys supplies PuTTY profiles with the Charon-HPA PAR kit. However, customers can select another terminal emulation program better suited to their purposes. This is especially true for emulated HP3000 MPE/iX guest systems where applications often use block mode terminals. This mode is not supported by PuTTY.
If not done so already during the installation, copy the provided PuTTY profiles to the correct directory on the host system. See Charon-PAR Software Installation#HPASoftwareInstallationInstallation#PARSoftwareInstallation-Post-InstallationTasks.
Accessing Emulated
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Charon-PA3 Systems via Terminal Emulation
HP3000 Charon-PA3 guest systems running on Charon-HPA can be accessed directly from the Linux emulator host using either of two freeware terminal emulators listed below, both of which run directly on the Linux host desktop, or by simply using the telnet command. Each has limitations, however. Neither terminal emulator provides a reliable way to paste multiple lines of text into :EDITOR , for example.
Once the HP3000 network is network of the Charon-PA3 guest system has been configured configured, it may be preferable to connect to the virtual HP3000 emulated system from a networked PC using any of the robust commercially-available terminal emulators.
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The PuTTY terminal emulator is the preferred method to use as the HP3000 Charon-PA3 console. It does not, however, support HP terminal escape sequences, so any inverse or highlighted text codes will be ignored, and block mode applications cannot be run. Using PuTTY in telnet mode (as supplied) allows use of the Break key. PuTTY supports copy and paste. To copy text to the clipboard, just select it with the left mouse button (this automatically copies the selection to the clipboard). To paste the clipboard into a PuTTY window, use Shift-Ins . Unfortunately, PuTTY cannot be used to reliably paste large blocks of text (even with MPE type-ahead enabled), as data overruns can easily occur.
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| Step | Command / Action | |
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| 1 | Make sure the preconfigured PuTTY profiles are in the directory .putty/sessions or .config/putty/sessions in your home directory. | (see Charon-PAR Software Installation#HPASoftwareInstallationInstallation#PARSoftwareInstallation-Post-InstallationTasks) |
| 2 | Start PuTTY from the command-line. |
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| 3 | Should you get an error that a font was not found, change the font. | Start PuTTY from the command-line.
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| 4 | To connect from a remote host, change localhost in the template to the correct hostname or IP address. | Start PuTTY from the command-line.
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The image below shows a PuTTY terminal window connected to the emulated HP3000 guest MPE/iX system console:
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The xhpterm terminal emulation (an X Windows version of freevt3k ) does not support many HP terminal escape sequences used by historic HP3000 hardware, but it can be used to run block-mode applications. It must be used on a serial line set up for raw mode.
The following image shows an xhpterm window connected to the second serial line of an emulated HP3000 MPE/iX system (running NMMGR):
Mapping the Block-Mode Enter key
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When using xhpterm , avoid resizing the window - it can result in input and output fields in block-mode programs being misaligned. Changing the screen font will change the window size automatically, without causing this problem.
Accessing Emulated
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Charon-PA9 Systems via Terminal Emulation
Stromasys provides preconfigured PuTTY profiles to access the serial console of an HP-UX system running on Charon-HPAPAR. PuTTY does not support all control characters used by HP-UX, but many utilities (e.g., SAM) will work with some restrictions.
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| Step | Command / Action | |
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| 1 | Make sure the preconfigured PuTTY profiles are in the directory .putty/sessions or .config/putty/sessions in your home directory. | (see Charon-PAR Software Installation#HPASoftwareInstallationInstallation#PARSoftwareInstallation-Post-InstallationTasks) |
| 2 | Start PuTTY from the command-line. | $ putty -load HPA-Telnet-VT100 |
| 3 | Should you get an error that a font was not found, change the font. | Start PuTTY from the command-line.
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| 4 | To connect from a remote host, change localhost in the template to the correct hostname or IP address. | Start PuTTY from the command-line.
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Instead of PuTTY, you can also use the standard telnet command on your remote Linux system (telnet <charon-hpapar-host> <port>). However, Stromasys does not provide profiles for this.
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If PuTTY is installed on the remote system, you can use the session profiles provided by Charon-HPA PAR (copy them from the emulator host) to connect to the emulated system:
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| Step | Command | |
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| 1 | Connect to the emulator host via SSH specifying that X11 should be tunneled. | $ ssh -X <user>@<emulator-host> |
| 2 | Enter the password of user to log into the emulator host system. | |
| 3 | Start the terminal emulation program (e.g., PuTTY, assuming the Charon-HPA PAR session configurations have been installed for the user). | $ putty -load HPA-Telnet-VT100 |
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