Affirmative 2217 manual

YES tation User's Guide for Windows-Based Terminals Models 2xx7 with XPe 22x7 23x7 and 27x7 Copyright 2008 Affirmative Computer Products ® www.affirmative.net September 2008[...]

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Table of Contents Installing Your Terminal .................................................................................................. 1 Mounting .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 22x7 ...............................[...]

Autostarting a Session ......................................................................................................... ............................... 35 Autostarting Powerterm Sessions in a Specific Order ................................................................................... 35 Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image ...........[...]

Installing Your Terminal Installing Your Terminal • Your terminal has no internal fan, and relies on natural airflow for cooling. When you mount it, make sure to keep as many ventilation holes, as possible, unobstructed . • DO NOT USE any AC-DC adapter other than the one provided with the terminal or acquired from Affirmative Computer Products [...]

Installing Your Terminal 22x7 Wall Mounting Another possibility is shown here. 22x7 Monitor Mounting We have done some testing with the provided screws, and have the following suggestions: • In soft wood, such as pine, no pilot holes are needed. • In hard wood or plastic, such as the side of a monitor, drill pilot holes with a 3/64” drill bit[...]

Installing Your Terminal VESA Mounti ng Pl ate on a 17” LCD Monitor The final result is shown below. 22x7 Mounted on a 17” LCD Terminal 23x7 and 27x7 These terminals can only be mounted vertically on a flat surface, using the provided stand, as shown in the picture on the front cover of this manual. Horizontal mounting will obstruct the airfl o[...]

Installing Your Terminal Cabling and Indicators 22x7 Please make all cable connections before turning on the power. The following figures show the 2217 rear and 22x7 front connectors. 2217 Rear Connectors Note: The 2227 has a serial connector and one USB connect or instead of the parallel printer connector. 22x7 Front Connectors There are three LED[...]

Installing Your Terminal 23x7 and 27x7 Please make all cable connections before turning on th e power. The following figure shows the rear and front connectors and the card slots on the rear panel of a 2317 terminal. Note: The 2327 and the 2727 have two additiona l USB connectors on the rear panel. 5[...]

Installing Your Terminal There are four LED indicator lights: • Power . The translucent Power button serves as the Power indicator. This indicator is faint amber when AC power is connected at the rear connector, and turns green when the terminal is powered up. • Network Connection . This amber indicator at the upper right corner of the RJ-45 Et[...]

XPe Limitations XPe LIMITATIONS ( Read this Section) Your terminal is pre-configured with the Windows XP e (XP Em bedded) operating system and a minimal set of applications. If you are familiar with Windows XP on your desktop or laptop PC, you are f amiliar with Windows XPe. In general, you can install the same applications or peripherals on this t[...]

XPe Limitations • If you are using Remote Desktop Protocol to access a Termin al Server, there is a further distinction between computer administrator rights and limited user rights. A limited user cannot store Term inal Server license information in the Registry, but a computer administra tor can store such inform a tion. Hence a limited user us[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Configuring Terminal Properties Almost all of your terminal properties are configured from the Start window, but several require the use of the Affirmative Computer Products remote central manager, eProManager. Start Window Configuration changes and prin ter additions are initially stored in RAM. In order for these c[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Control Panel Most terminal properties are configured in Control Pane l. Control Panel As you can see, the YES tation build of XPe does not include all of the configuration utilities available in XP. This is generally the case in XPe, since each build is custom built to minimize me mory footprint based upon expected [...]

Configuring Terminal Properties General Administrator Control Center General Proper ties Several of these general properties merit discussion. • Product ID . The last twelve characters are a permutation of the MAC address. • Software Version . This information is useful when seeking technical support from Affirmative Com puter Products. • RAM[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties These utilities are separate from the standard Control Panel because their significance typically calls for the extra security provided by the password login and restriction to administrators. Note: If you make any changes using any of these five utilities, you will see the following information box when you OK out o[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Additional User Acc ounts • Users must enter… . Chec k this box if you want user password cont rol. But this control only exists for users that have been assigned passwords, and you can only assi gn passwords here in User Accounts. You can do this in one of two ways: o Add a new account here (click on Add and fol[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties screen. If you want to enter some information about this user for future administrative clarification, enter it in the Description field. Add New Use r Dialog Box #2 Enter and confirm a password if desired. If you want this user to auto logon (see Automatic Log On ), you must enter a password. Add New Use r Dialog Bo[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Properties Click on this button to change the properties of an existing account. You can access two dialog boxes. User General Properties Dialog Box You can see that this dialog is a duplicate of th e first dialog box encountered when adding a user. User Group Membership Properties Dialog Box This dialog is a duplica[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Reset Password Click on this button to change the password for the highlighted user. Reset User Pa ssword Dialog B ox This dialog is a duplicate of the second dialog box encountered when addin g a user. Automatic Log On You can designate one user to be automatically lo gged on when yo u boot the terminal. To do this:[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties • You have installed new application pr ograms or device drivers and want to save them for future use after a reboot. • You have signed on to a Term inal Server for the first time and want to save the TSCAL information. • You are participating in a Domain and want to save the Domain Secret Key. When flash write[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties • Hide . If you click this button, the dialog box will disapp ear, but you can still access it by clicking on the icon in the System Tray. • Close . Click here to close the EWF dialog box. If you took action to enable or disable write protect, that action will not actually take place un til you reboot your termin[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties Security Click on this icon for another opportuni ty to change t he Administrator Control and EWF Manager password. You will see the following dialog box. Change Passw ord Dialog B ox The entries are self-evident, but there is one eccentricity. Even if your only desire is to disable the password, this utility still d[...]

Configuring Terminal Properties FTP Upgrade Click on this icon to see the Firmware Upgrade dialog box. If you have an FTP host somewhere on your network, you can pull down and install a new image file from that host. This new file will replace the current contents of the terminal’s flash memory, and all configuration parameters will be set back t[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Configuring a New Session Configuration of a new session begins at the PowerTerm Connect dialog box. To open this dialog box, click on the PowerTerm icon on the Desktop. This will open the PowerTerm Connect dialog box. The first time that y ou open this dialog box, you will probably see [...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions • Terminal Type . Select a terminal type from the lengthy drop-down list. When you do this, the fields in the dialog box will change to reflect the basic attributes of that terminal type. Display Session Configuration If you choose the 5250 Display type in the default Connect box, it will change to 5250 Display Co n[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Setup File List • Script File . If you want to automatically invoke a previously -constructed script at session startup, click on the … button to the right of this field and select a script file ( .psl ) from the resulting browse window. In this example, there is only one existing script, StartOrder.psl , which ha[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Terminal Setup After entering the basic configuration parameters fo r a display session, you can open that session and get a sign- on screen. But you can complete these additional confi guration parameters even without the sign-on screen. Open the Terminal menu and select Setup . You can also click on t he Setup butto[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions General General Dialog B ox Most of the parameters in the General dialog box are self-explanatory. Here are explanations of the others. • Power GUI. Check this box to convert a standard Green Screen look to a graphical look as shown here. Power GUI Screen The menu items and the F button callouts are automatica lly a[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Framed Green Screen • Unscaled Screen. This option only applies to a framed screen . When it is checked, scaling a fra med screen does not scale the Green Screen portion of the display. So you m ight get something that looks like this. Unscaled Green Screen • Code Page. If you are in the US, leave the code pages a[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Keyboard Keyboard Dial og Bo x These parameters are self-explanatory, except for: • Caplock Mode, o Caps (Unix) , locks alphabet keys on mai n keypad in uppercase. o Shift , locks alphabet and numeric keys on main keypad in shift setting. Pressi ng the shift butt on on you r keyboard will release shif t-lock mode. o[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions This dialog box is identical to the dialog box used when setting up a printer session. In displa y session configuration, it is intended to configur e a printer for lo cal Print Screens. If the Print Screen Data Conversion is set to Graphic, this configuration function, excep t for printing to a file, is usurped by th[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Colors Colors Dial og B ox This dialog box allows you to customize the visual p rope rties of the emulation screen attributes. You can also customize the colors for several other items seen at th e bottom of the Select Attribute drop-down menu, shown here. Preferences Preferences Dialog Box 29[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions • On Terminal Setup… . Ignore this section. • History Buffer Size. This parameter is valid only for non-IBM emulations. • Window Title . Type in the “friendly” title that you wish to see in your Desktop Task Bar. • History Buffer . This buffer is used only for non-IBM emulations. • On Power Term Exit .[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Printer Session Configuration If you choose the 5250 Printer type in the default Connect box, it will change to 5250 Printer Connect Dialog Box See Display Session Configuration for an explanation of these parameters, except for: • Message Queue/Message Library . Ask your server administrator about any changes here.[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Emulation Di alog Box NOTE: After making any configuration changes, you must save your new Terminal Setup before you close the session – otherwise they will be lost. This can be done in several ways depending upon th e parameters you have chosen (see Preferences ). In addition to doing this at session ex it time, yo[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Printer Printer Dialog Bo x If the Slave Printer Data Conversion is set to Graphic, this configuration function, except for printing to a fil e, is usurped by the Windows Add Printer Wizard. Using this wizard, accessed from the Print Setup option in the File menu or from the Printers and Faxes utility in th e Windows [...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Advanced Printing Di alo g B ox Select a printer from the Printer Type/Model drop-down list, and adjust other available parameters if you wish. For the most reliable printing from the host, we recomme nd that you use Host Print Transform by checking the Enable AS/400 Host Print Transform box. This will also enable the[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Modifying or Cloning an Existing 5250 Display Session Four 5250 default connections are normally provide d: 101GREEN, 101GUI, 122GREEN, and 122GUI. As the names indicate, each connection is desi gned to optimize the use of an Affirmative 101-key or 122-key ke yboard along with a classic “green screen” (text based)[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions 1. Open a session. 2. From the File menu, select Save As Icon . The Save As Icon dialog box will open . Save As Icon Dialo g B o x 3. Enter the icon information as desired. The most importan t item here is the Setup File Name. Each icon m ust have a unique .pts setup file. 4. Repeat for each of your sessions. After cr[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Record Script Dialog Box 6. Unfortunately, Windows wants to default to the My Documents folder. In this case, it is necessary have the script in the Program FilesPowerTerm folder, so browse to that folder. 7. Enter the desired script name, StartOrder in this example, and do a Save . 8. Select Edit Script from the Scr[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions 9. If this is the only script file in th is folder, the name will automatically be placed in the File Name field. Otherwise, select the desired script. Then do an Open . A blank Notepad screen will open as follows. Notepad Screen 10. Enter script commands as shown below.. This example shows a delay of 2 seconds betwee[...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions 12. Configure the first session, and only the first session, in th e opening order to execute this script file, as shown here. Connect Dialo g Box 13. Move the icon for the first session into your Startup f older. 14. Be sure to execute an Enhanced Write Filter Commit before you reboot, or else you will lose all your [...]

Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Now when you reboot, your sessions shoul d start in order, as shown here. 40[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image The 2xx7 YES tation has the capability, in combination with the Affirm ative Computer Products eProManager remote central management software, to clone firmware images to other 2x x7 YES tations . You can buil d your special Desktop configuration, add applications and peri pher[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image eProManager ePro is the central element in image cloning. This remo te central management software must be installed on a computer on the same network as the benchmark and target YES tations . The insta llation requirements are: • Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server with Service Pack 3 or higher, W[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image 5. Right click on the benchmark unit, to see the context menu. XPe Context Menu 6. Left click on XPe Cloning to see the Remote Clone Image dialog box. Remote Clone Image Dialog Box 7. Enter the information: • IP . This is the IP address of the PC on the network that contains the shared directory that will conta[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image 8. Click on Clone . You should see a confirmation that the remote clone command has been sent. You can now close this dialog box if you wish. ePro is now out of the capture loop, with all subsequent interaction taking place between the benchmark terminal and the computer that is storing the image files. Remote Cl[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image Restoration Your .xpz images can be restored to any target YES tation that has an XPe image of version 301 or above. But there are two different methods for restoration, FTP Update or Reseal, depending upon the image version at the target unit. Use FTP Update for all targ et image versions of 301 and above until [...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image 3. Right click on the target unit, to see the context menu. 4. Left click on Firmware Upgrade to see the XPe Upgrade dialog box. 5. Enter the information: • FTP Host .. This is the IP address of your FTP server. • Directory . This is the name of the directory that cont ains the captured images. Your FTP serve[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image Reseal This method is used to re-image target units that ar e at image version 404 and above. The FTP method will not work with these image versions. The procedure is: 1. Make sure that your desired benchmark image file has a .xpz extension. If that file has a .xpe extension, rename it with a .xpz extension. The [...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image 4. Left click on XPe Reseal to see the Remote Restore Image dialog box. 5. Enter the information: • IP . This is the IP address of the PC on the network that contains the shared directory with the images to be restored. You can use your management console as the server, or you can use any Windows PC on the netw[...]

Cloning a 2xx7 YES tation XPe Image 7. Highlight the desired file and click on Restore . You will see a “Restarting…” message. 8. If you look at the target unit displa y, you will see the unit shut off and then reboot with a lengthy Linux boot dialog. At the end of the dialog, you will see an “Image restore processing” message. 9. The ima[...]

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