General Settings

Session

General settings that control execution of CHARON-VAX belong to an object callled "session". It is a preloaded object; therefore, only "set" commands apply.

Example:

set session <parameter>=<value>

The following table describes all available "session" parameters, their meaning and examples of usage:

hw_model

Parameter

hw_model

Type

Text string

Value

Virtual VAX system hardware model to be emulated.

Use a default configuration template for each particular model as a starting point for a custom configuration. This would ensure that the parameter is set correctly.

Example:

set session hw_model="VAX_6610"

The models are:

MicroVAX_3100_Model_96
MicroVAX_3100_Model_98
MicroVAX_3600
MicroVAX_3900
MicroVAX_II
VAXserver_3600
VAXserver_3600
VAXserver_3600_128
VAXserver_3600_512
VAXserver_3900
VAXserver_3900_128
VAXserver_3900_512
VAX_4000_Model_106
VAX_4000_Model_108
VAX_4000_Model_700
VAX_4000_Model_705
VAX_6000_Model_310
VAXstation_4000_Model_90
VAX_6610
VAX_6620
VAX_6630
VAX_6640
VAX_6650
VAX_6660

configuration_name

Parameter

configuration_name

Type

Text string

Value

Name of CHARON-VAX instance (unique):

set session configuration_name="MSCDV1"

The value of this parameter is used as prefix to the event log file name when multiple log files are configured (see below).

From the example above, the CHARON-VAX log file will have the following name:

MSCDV1-YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss-xxxxxxxxx.log

xxxxxxxxx is an increasing decimal number starting from 000000000 to separate log files with the same time of creation (in case the log is being written faster than one log file per second).