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Remote Front Panel Operation
Remote Front Panel
Remote Front Panel
The Remote Front Panel capability provides a means to allow the front panel
of the OSA to be operated remotely from a PC with an X Windowing emulator
or a UNIX workstation with X Windows.
With the exception for update time, which is limited by the speed of the
underlying network, there should be no visible difference between what would
be displayed on the OSA locally and the remote display.
Information and Equipment Required for the Configura-
tion Process
1 Before beginning the OSA network configuration process, obtain the following
required information from your Information Technology (IT) department.
In the OSA network configuration process, an IP address and the associated
hostname need to be assigned to the OSA and added to the DNS utilized by
your PC or UNIX workstation. Gateway and Net Mask information will also need
to be specified in order for the OSA to communicate with the LAN.
The new Internet Protocol (IP) address is used to uniquely identify the
network address of the OSA. An IP address is a set of four decimal numbers,
separated by periods, like 192.170.128.210.
The Hostname associated with the IP address or the OSA.
Net Mask (Subnetwork Mask)# is used to let the Internet Protocol separate
the network ID from the full IP address and thus determine whether the source
and destination IP address are on the same network.
Gateway address is used to communicate with devices on a different physical
network. The gateway address is the address of a routing device that connects
your OSA’s LAN with other LANs. In some cases, this may be the same address
as the IP address of the OSA client.
Local Domain Name is used to identify the name of the unique internet
address stating the location and company name.