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T1500/T1510 WINDOWS-BASED TERMINAL CLIENT MANAGER GUIDE - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 2
- HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 3
T1500/T1510 WINDOWS-BASED TERMINAL CLIENT MANAGER GUIDE September 2000 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 4
Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Compaq T1500/T1510 Windows-Based Terminal Client Manager Guide Second Edition September 2000 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 5
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Contents 1 T1500/T1510 Windows-Based Terminal Client Manager 2 Installing the Client Manager Application Software Installation Procedure 3 Uninstall Procedure 8 3 Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program Launching the Client Manager 9 Windows NT 9 Linux/UNIX 9 Client Manager Window 11 Message - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 8
vi List of Figures 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-5 2-6 3-1 3-2 3-3 3-4 3-5 3-6 3-7 3-8 3-9 3-10 3-11 3-12 3-13 3-14 4-1 4-2 4-3 Resources Query 5 Install Image Locally Query 5 Base Installation Directory Dialog Box 6 Install Firmware Dialog Box 6 Install Tcl Admin Directory Dialog Box 7 Confirmation Dialog - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 9
on the same server types that the software for the terminals installs on (see T1500/T1510 Windows-Based Terminal Network Installation Guide [/Docs/ServerInstall.pdf] on the product distribution CD): • SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 • SCO UnixWare 7 • HP-UX • Linux (both Slackware and Red Hat) • Windows - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 10
a Windows NT server installation, the Client Manager is designed to run on a Windows NT 4.0 or newer server; it will not run on an NT workstation. Service Pack 6a or higher should be installed on NT 4.0. It is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 11
for the terminals or it may be installed independently at any time. Refer to the T1500/T1510 Window-Based Terminal Network Installation Guide (/docs/ServerInstall.pdf) on the CD for server setup instructions. Note Refer to Chapter 6 of the T1500/T1510 WindowsBased Terminal Network Installation - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 12
box. If you are installing the Client Manager as part of a server setup procedure, make other selections as instructed in the T1500/T1510 Window-Based Terminal Network Installation Guide. Press Ok to start the installation. A series of dialog boxes prompting you to make choices will follow, the - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 13
Installing the Client Manager Application Software 5 Figure 2-1 Resources Query 3. A query will be presented, asking if you want to save the firmware for this product on the server (see Figure 2-2). These image files are used for Verify and Restore functions (Chapter 3) of the Client Manager. You - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 14
6 Chapter 2 4. Dialog boxes are presented, asking you where the software is to be installed. The Client Manager tool is by default installed in a subdirectory under the base directory (see Figures 2-3 through 2-5). However, you may install the software in any location you choose. Figure 2-3 Base - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 15
Installing the Client Manager Application Software 7 Figure 2-5 Install Tcl Admin Directory Dialog Box 5. The installation process ends with a Confirmation dialog box and a Finished message (Figure 2-6). If you press Cancel in the Confirmation dialog box, an Abort dialog box will appear, which if - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 16
8 Chapter 2 Uninstall Procedure To uninstall the Client Manager program, delete the folder in which it is installed. The folder name and location are those prompted during installation (see above); the default folder is :/T1500/admin.tcl/. If Client Manager was installed on Windows NT, - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 17
(VNC Client and Documentation) are also available from the Start menu. The VNC Client selection is described in a subsequent chapter of this manual, and the Documentation selection opens this document. Linux/UNIX The Client Manager program must be launched in the X-window environment. Open a shell - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 18
10 Chapter 3 Figure 3-1 Launching T1500/T1510 Client Manager from Desktop Icon Figure 3-2 Launching T1500/T1510 Client Manager from Start Menu - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 19
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 11 The shell script searches in the order specified and uses the first one found. If none is found it uses the first path variable. If the PATH environment variable does not exist, it creates it in the root (/). Client Manager Window The T1500/T1510 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 20
12 Chapter 3 Figure 3-3 T1500/T1510 Client Manager Window and Drop-Down Menus - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 21
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 13 Message Bar and Client Area The message bar displays messages issued by the Client Manager software. Some of these messages are displayed in the client area and are also written to a log file (:/T1500/admin.tcl/admin_data/log/admin.log). The - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 22
14 Chapter 3 Figure 3-4 Configuration File Messages File Menu Selections The File menu (see Figure 3-3) has selections for accessing the Workspace Location dialog box and for exiting the Client Manager program. Workspace Location Dialog Box The Workspace Location dialog box (Figure 3-5) displays - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 23
be named in upper case (see Functions Menu Selections below for information about the purpose of these folders). You may enter a new directory name manually or you may use the Browse button to locate the new directory. Note The Windows NT Explorer displays file and folder names using initial caps - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 24
16 Chapter 3 Functions Menu Selections The Functions menu (see Figure 3-3) lists dialog boxes that you may open to get (capture) and save user and terminal configuration information from designated terminals and to restore the saved configurations. The six dialog boxes (Figure 3-6) are nearly - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 25
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 17 Figure 3-6 Functions Menu Dialog Boxes Note If you are going to use terminal names in the Functions menu Get and Put dialog boxes, you must either have DNS set up to map the terminal names to their IP addresses, or you can provide terminal name-to - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 26
18 Chapter 3 Table 3-2 Functions Menu Dialog Boxes Selection Description Get Terminal/User/Full Configuration and Put Terminal/User/Full Configuration selections Titles of the six selections are descriptive of the functions of the individual dialog box. • Get Terminal Configuration Get the - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 27
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 19 Table 3-2 Functions Menu Dialog Boxes, Continued Selection Description • Put Full Configuration Install a full configuration on the terminal(s), as defined by a file (typically generated by Get Full Configuration) in the working directory FULL - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 28
20 Chapter 3 Table 3-2 Functions Menu Dialog Boxes, Continued Selection Description Enter batch file name text box Active when Schedule it is selected. The get/ put commands are written to a batch file (.bat for Windows, .sh for non-Windows) created in the admin.tcl/admin_data/bat directory. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 29
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 21 Admin Menu Selections The Admin menu (see Figure 3-3) has selections that allow you to shadow a remote terminal by launching the VNC utility, to discover terminals on the network, to shut down a selected terminal, to verify current software of a - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 30
22 Chapter 3 Figure 3-8 VNC Dialog Boxes Discover Terminals Selection Opens a dialog box (Figure 3-9 and Table 3-3) that allows terminals on the network to be discovered. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 31
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 23 Figure 3-9 Discover Terminals Dialog Box Table 3-3 Discover Terminals Dialog Box Selection Description Enter IP mask or filelist of IP masks text box Enter the IP mask or path/name to a file containing a list of IP masks identifying regions to - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 32
24 Chapter 3 Table 3-3 Discover Terminals Dialog Box, Continued Selection Description Enter full pathname of list file text box Enter a unique path and name identifying the file to which discovery information is to be saved. The file will be created if it does not already exist. Edit hosts - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 33
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 25 Shutdown Terminal Selection Opens a dialog box (Figure 3-10 and Table 3-4) that allows you to shut down or reboot a selected terminal or to log off the current user. Figure 3-10 Shutdown Terminal Dialog Box Table 3-4 Shutdown Terminal Dialog Box - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 34
26 Chapter 3 Verify Current Software Selection Use this dialog box (Figure 3-11 and Table 3-5) to perform/schedule verification of the software installed on selected terminal(s). The installed software is checked for permissions, file sizes, groups, and performs a byte-by-byte comparison against a - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 35
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 27 Table 3-5 Verify Terminal Dialog Box Selection Description Enter hostname/IP/filelist of terminal text box Enter the name or IP address of the target terminal or enter the name of a batch file listing the names/IP addresses of a number of host - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 36
28 Chapter 3 Table 3-5 Verify Terminal Dialog Box, Continued Selection Description Enter batch file name text box Active when Schedule it is selected. The verify commands are written to a batch file (.bat for Windows, .sh for non-Windows) created in the :T1500/ admin.tcl/admin_data/bat/ - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 37
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 29 Restore Current Software Selection Use this dialog box (Figure 3-12 and Table 3-6) to perform/schedule restoration of software installed on selected terminal(s). This function performs a compare the same as described above, but when a difference is - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 38
30 Chapter 3 Table 3-6 Restore Terminal Dialog Box, Continued Selection Description Enter workspace name text box This is the image to be restored to the terminal(s). Enter the full pathname of the image file. If you selected Save the firmware for this product on the server when you installed - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 39
Running the T1500/T1510 Client Manager Program 31 Upgrade Terminal Software Selection Use this dialog box (Figure 3-13 and Table 3-7) to perform/schedule upgrade of software installed on selected terminal(s). This function performs a smart upgrade in that only new files are installed and client - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 40
32 Chapter 3 Table 3-7 Upgrade Terminal Software Dialog Box Selection Description Enter hostname/IP/filelist of terminal text box Enter the name or IP address of the target terminal or enter the name of a batch file listing the names/IP addresses of a number of terminals to be processed as a - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 41
when finished. Help Menu Selection Only the About message box is available (See Figure 3-14). On-line help is not implemented as a menu selection. All instructions for using the Client Manager are in this Guide (PDF file located on the product installation CD). Figure 3-14 About Message Box - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 42
34 Chapter 3 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 43
4 VNC Client Utility The VNC Client utility is a program that allows you to "shadow" a T1500/T1510 Windows-Based Terminal or another computer. Shadowing allows you, the client, to view the desktop of a remote (host) terminal or computer running the VNC Server software, and to operate the remote - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 44
clicking on the X in the upper right corner of the window. 5. Enable/launch shadowing from the Select menu (Select | System | Enable Shadowing). Refer to the instructions in the terminal on-line help for further details. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 45
VNC Client Utility 37 Using the VNC Client Tool Ensure that the VNC server application is running on the host terminal before trying to connect with the VNC client application (see Launching VNC Server on a T1500/ T1510 Windows-Based Terminal, above). The VNC Client utility can be launched from - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 46
38 Chapter 4 VNC Client Connection Options Dialog Box Figure 4-2 VNC Client Connection Options Dialog Box Table 4-1 VNC Client Connection Options Dialog Box Selection Description Preferred encoding radio buttons Normally the VNC viewer requests CopyRect, Hextile, CoRRE and RRE in that order. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 47
is made automatically when VNC is launched from both the Client Manager tool as well as the Start menu. However, if VNC is run manually this option must be selected each time. Request shared session When you make a connection to a VNC server, all other existing connections are normally closed - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 48
40 Chapter 4 Note The host terminal/computer can be accessed by multiple users, but if they are all connected at the same time they will all see the same desktop. - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 49
provided on the installation CD. Users that wish to use this function must provide their own scheduler. Refer to the documentation for a given scheduler for instructions on its use. You will find that most functions that perform a modification on a terminal will give the option to: • "Run it now" or - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 50
42 Chapter 5 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 51
Index A About dialog box 33 Admin Menu selections 21 C Client area 13 Client Manager installation procedure 3 introduction 1 running 9 window 11 Colors, message 13 Configuration file 13 D Dialog box About 33 Discover Terminals 23 Functions menu 16 Get/Put Full Configuration 17 Terminal Configuration - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 52
Index 44 N Non-NT server, installation 4 NT server, installation 4 P Patches 5 Procedure installation 3 uninstallation 8 Put Full Configuration dialog box 17 Put Terminal Configuration dialog box 17 Put User Configuration dialog box 17 R Restore Current Software selection 29 Terminal dialog box 29 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 53
Index 45 - HP Thin Client PC t1000 | T1500/T1510 Windows-based Terminal Client Manager Guid - Page 54
T1500/T1510 Windows-Based Terminal Client Manager Guide Created using FrameMaker® and Acrobat® The on-line book is provided in PDF and presented on the terminal product CD.
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