UNIX-Connect
System Administration

Introduction

UNIX-Connect is the generic name for a family of products enabling communication between UNIX systems supported by Northgate and the Reality, RealityX and SovereignX environments.

This section is intended for UNIX system administrators, and describes the configuration and maintenance procedures for UNIX-Connect. It is assumed that the reader has a working knowledge of UNIX, and also of Reality, RealityX or SovereignX.

Contents

This section contains the following sub-sections:

• This section defines the purpose and intended readership of this section, and outlines the contents of each section. Conventions and references used in the section are also listed.
• Overview, provides an overview of UNIX-Connect, its main features, and how it works.
• Printer Administration, describes how to configure network printers and make them available to UNIX and Reality users, and also how to configure Reality printers so that they can be used by UNIX users.
• The ROUTE-FILE, describes the file that holds the details of the hosts to which you will connect, the different types of ROUTE-FILE entry and when to use them. It also describes the ROUTE-FILE Maintenance Utility, which allows you to create, modify and delete ROUTE-FILE entries.
• Session Manager, describes a dedicated UNIX process, which accepts incoming calls for the local system and maintains a log of outgoing connections. For incoming calls, the session manager also performs security checking.
• Network Security, describes the security features provided by UNIX-Connect.
• General Administration Tasks, describes general administration tasks, configuration that you will need to carry out in remote non-UNIX environments, and UNIX environment variables.
• Example Configuration, provides an example network configuration.
• npu Command, describes the command line interface to the Network Printing Utility.

Related Documents

Listed below is documentation that contains further information.

• UNIX-Connect

  UNIX-Connect User Guide

• Reality 8.x and later

  User’s Reference: Administration

  Series X Heartbeat Reference Manual

  Reality C API Reference Manual

• RealityX

  RealityX Reference Manual Volume 3: Administration

  Series X Heartbeat Reference Manual

  Reality C API Reference Manual

• REALITY 7.x (Proprietary System)

  Configuring and Securing the System

  Guide To Networking For Reality Users

• SovereignX

  SovereignX User Utilities Manual

  SovereignX System Administration and Utilities

• Network File Transfer

  Network File Transfer User’s Guide

  Network File Transfer Programmer’s Manual

• X.25

  Series X X.25 System Administration Manual

• ROSI-ICL

  Series X ROSI-ICL System Administration Guide

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this section:

Reality Unless otherwise stated, unqualified references to Reality in this section refer to RealityX and Reality 8.x or later on UNIX.

Reality environment
Unless otherwise stated, references to the Reality environment in this section refer to REALITY 7.x on Series 19, RealityX on UNIX and Reality 8.x or later on UNIX and Windows.

Reality database Unless otherwise stated, references to Reality databases in this section refer to RealityX on UNIX and Reality 8.x or later on UNIX and Windows.

REALITY system Unless otherwise stated, references to REALITY systems in this section refer to REALITY 7.x on Series 19.

Other conventions used in this section are listed in the General Conventions section.