Example for Adding Groups of NCs

A small company just purchased fifteen NCs with a server. The company plans to have 10 English speaking accountants, 2 French speaking people responsible for operations, and 3 English speaking engineers. The accountants need to connect to a mainframe (OCS) and use HJV; the operations people need HJB; and the engineers need X-windows (GO-Joe). This is how the company set up its network.

First they set up the hardware and installed the Netra j software. Then they filled out the Network Computer Configuration Form in Appendix A, Network Computer Configuration Form.

The system administrator started a web browser on the server with URL servername:81 and logged in (setup, setup). For the initial configuration system defaults, the system administrator, chose CST and English (most users were English speaking). Next the system administrator selected the Sun WebServer as the default web server and set the web server document root.

Because this NC network was not added to an already existing network, there were no NIS or DNS servers. So the system administrator went to Name Service Administration and set up the Netra server as a caching (basic) DNS server, then as a client to itself.

After setting the document root and configuring global parameters, the system administrator selected adding multiple computers. This form was filled out for the ten NCs used by the accountants since that was the largest group. Prefix: acc, starting IP address: 125.144.35.101, Number of NCs: 10, Lease Time: 3, Default Application: views, NC locale: English, Keyboard: Canadian. The system administrator made the leasing dynamic.

The system administrator clicked on OCS; the number of licenses was correct, so the administrator finished the install, chose English as the language for the server, then filled in the configuration page: TN3270 gateway host: xxxxx, TN3270 gateway port:xx.

The system administrator added the remaining five NCs individually. The administrator assigned host addresses, so the leasing is static.

For the operations people:

Host name: ops1, ops2; MAC address: xxx,xxx; Host address: 125.144.35.111, 125.144.35.112; Lease time: -1 (indefinite or permanent lease); Default Application: browser; NC locale: French; Keyboard: Canadian French.

For the engineers:

Host Name: eng1,eng2,eng3;Mac address:ss,xxx,ddd; Host Address: 125.144.35.113, 125.144.35.114, 125.144.35.115; Lease time: -1;Default Application: views; NC locale: English, Keyboard: Canadian.

The system administrator went to Network Computer Application Management to add Go-Joe, an applet that runs in HotJava Views.