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Axis 570 User Manual

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Axis Print Servers
High Performance Multi-Protocol
Print Servers for Virtually All Networks
v 3 . 0
User's Guide
A X I S 5 7 0 / 6 7 0

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  • Page 1 Axis Print Servers High Performance Multi-Protocol Print Servers for Virtually All Networks v 3 . 0 User's Guide A X I S 5 7 0 / 6 7 0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Read Me First To get your print server quickly up and running, follow the instructions below: 1. Connect the AXIS 570/670 to your network and to your printer as described in Connecting the Printer to the Network, on page 6.

  • Page 3: Safety Notices

    Every care has been taken in the preparation of this manual; if you detect any inaccuracies or omissions, please inform your local Axis office, which can be found on the cover of this document. Axis Communications AB cannot be held responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes to the product and manuals without prior notice.

  • Page 4: Product Overview

    Product Overview Product Overview The AXIS 570/670 is a LAN attached multiprotocol print server that prints IBM and ASCII datastreams to any ASCII printer. Supporting IBM Mainframes, AS/400, NetWare, UNIX, LAN Server Manager, Windows, OS/2 and Apple EtherTalk, this product is ideal for IBM Mainframe and AS/400 sites that are migrating from pure IBM networks to LAN environments.
  • Page 5 Product Overview AXIS 570/670 User’s Guide The AXIS 670 Print Server LPT1 Printer External Power LPT2 Printer Connector Supply Connector Connector Token Ring COM1 Connector Printer Connector Token Ring Connector Ring Speed Test Button Switch (recessed) Network Indicator Power Indicator...

  • Page 6: Hardware Inventory

    AXIS 570/670 User’s Guide Product Overview Hardware Inventory Unpack and check all the items using the following check list. Contact your dealer if anything is missing or damaged. All packing materials are recyclable. Model variants Part Numbers Hardware AXIS 570...

  • Page 7: Connecting The Printer To The Network

    4. Connect your AXIS 570/670 to the network using the appropriate cabling types as defined in Table 1: Product Model Summary, on page 3. 5. For the AXIS 670 and AXIS 670e only: Slide the Ring Speed switch to 4 or 16, as appropriate for your Token Ring network.

  • Page 8: Assigning An Ip Address

    Refer to Setting the IP address, on page 30, for setting the IP address in the Macintosh environment. All methods are enabled by default. This means that if you have a DHCP server running on your network, the AXIS 570/670 will receive its IP address immediately after you have connected it to the network.

  • Page 9: Sna Printing In The As/400 Environment

    For information regarding manual configuration, refer to the AXIS Network Print Servers technical reference that is supplied on the AXIS Online CD or see the Technical Notes that are available on the Axis Web site. Configuring the AS/400 Host System...
  • Page 10 2. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. 3. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570/670 in the location field and press the Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570/670 appear. You may be asked to enter a user name and a password.

  • Page 11: Verifying The Communication Link

    • One APPC controller with the same name as the AXIS 570/670 LU Name. • One APPC device with the same name as the AXIS 570/670 LU Name, one controlling session (QRMTWSC) and the currently active (default = 3) printer sessions(QRMTWSC).

  • Page 12: Tn5250E Printing In The As/400 Environment

    1. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. 2. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570/670 in the location field and press the Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570/670 appear. You may be asked to enter a user name and a password.
  • Page 13 TN5250E Printing in the AS/400 environment AXIS 570/670 User’s Guide 8. Select IBM PRINTER DRIVER from the header. 9. Make sure that the Printer Driver parameter is matching your printer and click the Submit IBM PRINTER DRIVER settings button. 10. Select IBM PAGE FORMAT from the header.

  • Page 14: As/400 Ipds Over Ppr/Ppd Printing

    1. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. 2. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570e/670e in the location field and press the Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570e/670e appear. You may be asked to enter a user name and a password.
  • Page 15 AS/400 IPDS over PPR/PPD Printing AXIS 570/670 User’s Guide Creating a PSF Configuration Follow the instructions below to create a PSF configuration: 1. Issue the command CRTPSFCFG. 2. Press F11 to display keywords. 3. Select a name for the PSF configuration and enter it at the PSF configuration line.
  • Page 16 13. Press the Enter key on your keyboard to create the printer device description. Verifying the communication Follow the instructions below to verify the communication by sending a print job to the AXIS 570e/670e: 1. Type WRKCFGSTS *DEV AX570PR1 on the AS/400 command line to display the previously created printer device.

  • Page 17: Sna Printing In The Mainframe Environment

    To be able to perform the instructions presented in this section, you should first assign an IP address to your AXIS 570/670 using one of the methods presented in Assigning an IP address, on page 7. If your network does not support the TCP/IP protocol suite, you can still configure the AXIS 570/670 using AXIS Netpilot.
  • Page 18 Depending on your choice of data streams, continue the installation by selecting the appropriate set of instructions below: IPDS data streams (AXIS 570e and AXIS 670e only) 1. Select IBM IPDS Configuration from the header. 2. Select your preferred system language from the System Language drop-down list and click the Submit IBM IPDS Configuration settings button.
  • Page 19 Verifying the communication link 1. Power on the Print Server and wait for 2 minutes. 2. Press the AXIS 570/670 test button once to print a test page and ensure that the SNA status is defined as Idle, Actv, LU-1 or LU-3.

  • Page 20: Configuring The Mainframe Host

    1. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. 2. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570/670 in the location field and press the Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570/670 appear. You may be asked to enter a user name and a password.
  • Page 21 11. Repeat steps 5-10 for each session you want to set up. Note: The AXIS 570/670 supports eight semi-concurrent TN3270E host sessions. 12. Click the Submit TN3270E settings button to initialize the TN3270E sessions. Depending on your choice of data streams, continue the installation by selecting the appropriate...

  • Page 22: Setting Up The Tn3270E Server

    This section describes how to configure Microsoft’s SNA Server. Note: For information on how to configure other TN3270E-capable servers, please refer to the AXIS 570/670 User’s Manual, supplied on the AXIS Online CD or the Technical Notes featured on the AXIS Website...
  • Page 23 Follow the instructions below to verify communication from the AXIS 570/670 to the Mainframe host via the SNA Server: 1. Activate the connection you created in step 2 of the above SNA Server - AXIS 570/670 connection procedures. The status of the connection should be “active”.

  • Page 24: Mainframe Ipds Over Ppr/Ppd Printing

    Mainframe IPDS over PPR/PPD Printing Mainframe IPDS over PPR/PPD Printing Note: IPDS is only supported by the AXIS 570e and the AXIS 670e print servers. Configuring the Mainframe host 1. Define the Communication Control Unit, e.g. 3172, to MVS. 2. Modify the PSF/MVS Startup Procedure with the following entry:...
  • Page 25 1. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. 2. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570e/670e in the location field and press the Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570e/670e appear. You may be asked to enter a user name and a password.

  • Page 26: Setup For Windows 95/98 & Nt

    Install the AXIS Print Monitor software, if you have not already done so. It is available on the AXIS Online CD. Once installed, the AXIS Print Monitor is automatically initialized on system start-up.

  • Page 27: Setup For Ndps

    Workgroups or Windows 3.1 workstation: 1. Double-click the AXIS Print Utility icon. 2. In the Port menu, click Add. In the NPS Port list, select the AXIS 570/670 port to be installed. The ports appear as <name>.LP1, <name>.LP2, and <name>.CM1, where <name> is AX followed by the last six digits of the AXIS 570/670 serial number.

  • Page 28: Setup For Netware

    AXIS NetPilot was installed. 2. Locate the AXIS 570/670 in the ‘New Axis Units’ folder. Select it and click the Install button on the AXIS NetPilot toolbar. If your network is large, it could take a few seconds before the print server appears in the folder.

  • Page 29: Setup For Os/2

    AXIS Print Utility for OS/2 is the preferred method for network printing within OS/2 environments. Install the AXIS Print Utility for OS/2 software, if you have not already done so. It is available on the AXIS Online CD in the software\prt_srv\utility\axpu\latest folder.

  • Page 30: Set Up For Macintosh

    1. Install AXIS Print Utility on an OS/2 workstation. 2. Set up your AXIS 570/670 from the file server as described in Peer-to-peer printing, on page 28. 3. The print queue must be shared before it can be accessed by other OS/2 clients. Open an OS/2...

  • Page 31: Setting The Ip Address

    5. Open the Chooser and select the printer port you wish to use for printing documents. Close the Chooser. Important! The _CFG port disappears 60 minutes after the AXIS 570 or AXIS 570e has been powered on. If you want it to reappear, you must restart the print server. Setup for UNIX...

  • Page 32: Management And Configuration

    Web browser. Follow the procedures below to access the AXIS 570/670 internal Web management pages: 1. Simply enter the IP address or host name of the AXIS 570/670 as a URL in your browser, as follows: Examples: http://192.36.253.96...

  • Page 33: Test Button

    All Axis print servers are equipped with a test button. The functionality of the test button is determined by the number of times the button is being pressed. • Press the test button once to print a test page that contains basic information about the AXIS 570/670.

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