Axel AX3000 65 User's Manual - Manual (Page 84)

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AX3000 - User's Manual
5.1.9 - The Multi-Shell
The AXEL multi-shell software allows multiple telnet sessions on the same host,
with the same user name, without demanding multiple logons. This is done by
running the AXEL tcpmsh program from a UNIX shell. This supports up to eight
duplicated sessions.
Operating example: you could run four multi-shell sessions (or «views»)
across each of two telnet connections to different hosts. Function keystroke
combinations could be used to hot-key between the different telnet connections
() and different multi-shell views ().
a) Installation
Copy to /usr/bin and rename as ‘tcpmsh’ the appropriate binary. Example for
IBM AIX:
# cp tcpmsh.AIX /usr/bin/tcpmsh
b) Setting-Up the AX3000
Use of multiple views within a single telnet session must be set through the
AX3000 set-up.
The AX3000 supports eight virtual screens, which may be shared, between
telnet sessions and multi-shell views. In the AX3000 set-up, multi-shell views
are referred to as «pages per session» or «page/session»).
The AX3000 default factory set-up is 8 telnet sessions and 1 page/session.
To change this configuration, enter AX3000 Set-Up () and
select the [Terminal]-[Multi-session] dialog. Tune the two parameters number
of sessions and number of Pages/Session.
c) Using the Multi-Shell
To run tcpmsh, the syntax is:
$ tcpmsh [-options]