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The Question is: Recently I had our VAX system upgraded to version 7.1 from 6.2. I had Decnet Phase IV running but also had the Decnet Plus installed. My question pertains to the resetting of terminals servers and access terminal servers. Under 6.2 I used the command s yntax; CONNECT NODE SERV OR CONNECT VIA ISA-0 PHYSICAL ADDRESS XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX I have attempted to use the MC NCP to do this under the new 7.1 with the Decnet plus and have not been successful in connecting to any of my terminal servers. I would l ike some information on the new means of connecting to terminals servers and what section of the VMS manuals cover this. Thanks in advance. The Answer is : It is not possible to have both DECnet-Plus and DECnet Phase IV installed on the same system -- these packages are mutually exclusive. Terminal server management, as well as the initial load of the DECserver images and any necessary upline system dump from the DECserver are handled via the DECnet maintenance and operation protocol (MOP). DECnet MOP capabilities are available with DECnet Phase IV -- the command interface is NCP, with DECnet-Plus -- the command interface is NCL, and with the OpenVMS LANCP tool on OpenVMS V6.2 and later -- the command interface is LANCP. DECnet-Plus provides an NCP emulator, through which many existing command procedures and user commands that expect NCP can be successfully used. The emulator is not, however, a complete implementation of NCP. Terminal services do not run DECnet. Solely for the purposes of MOP operations via the DECnet-based MOP implementations, the terminal servers are typically entered as DECnet nodes in the local DECnet node database. Options for connecting to the terminal server include LANCP -- use of existing DECnet Phase IV implementations with a migration to LANCP when moving to DECnet-Plus tends to be the prefered approach for the OpenVMS Wizard, as LANCP is entirely independent of the DECnet implementation chosen -- or via DCL command SET HOST/MOP available with DECnet-Plus. Information on the specific failure(s) will be required -- what happened when your attempts to connect to the terminal server were unsuccessful?
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