{"id":2292,"date":"2020-02-13T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.staylinked.com\/sl\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=2292"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:35:59","slug":"telnet-host-administration2","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/portal.staylinked.com\/sl\/kb\/knowledge-base\/telnet-host-administration2\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrator User Guide – Telnet Host Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This section describes the various\nmeans provided to group and define your Telnet hosts that will be accessed from\neach StayLinked server. You can define one or more Telnet hosts per server to\nwhich your wireless users will connect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telnet Hosts are organized into \u2018Host Groups\u2019 that can be assigned to \u2018Device Groups\u2019, allowing you to control what Telnet hosts are available to specific devices. Various host groups can be created to provide multiple configurations of hosts, as required by your architecture. When more than one host is defined for a host group, the list of hosts will appear as a menu on the wireless device when a new session is started and the user will be able to select the Telnet host to which they\u2019d like to connect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This selection process can also be automated using the \u201cpreferred host\u201d setting. Clients using the custom configuration file \u2018connections.ini\u2019 can receive a new version of this file from the StayLinked server. For those devices not configure for Multiple Connections, the preferred host setting can be distributed to client for using the Administrator\u2019s client settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the following example, you can see the mandatory \u2018Default\u2019 host group, plus we have defined a few additional host groups. The \u2018Default\u2019 host group may be changed, but not deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maintaining Host Groups<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you select \u2018Telnet Host Groups\u2019 from the server tree or the Manage menu, the Telnet Host Groups list will appear in the main display panel. Each StayLinked server will have a \u2018Default\u2019 host group, and you can add other host groups as required. Clicking the right mouse button in a blank area or on a host group will cause a small menu to appear with options to Add, Edit, or Delete a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional options include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screen Recognition Quick Access \u2013<\/strong> This allows the Administrator to open all of the existing screen recognition events in this telnet host group for quick adjustments. It does not allow the creation of new events, which must still be completed by navigating the to desired host entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right Clicking on individual entries offers a preview of the Screen Map and\/or Reformatted Screens (v15.3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manage Screen Maps \u2013<\/strong> This opens a list of all screen maps for all hosts. Management of screen maps outside of the host entries allows renaming to be applied to all references among all host entries, even those in multiple host groups. Screen maps referenced in any host group cannot be deleted until the reference is removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you select the Delete option, you are prompted for confirmation. If you select the Add or Edit options, the following window will appear where you can enter\/edit the host group definition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The host group has a \u2018Group Name\u2019 plus two additional options. Starting with version 15.5 build 220, group names and individual host entry names support the [uni XXXX] mnemonic for localization support. Mapping each character in a string, the uni mnemonic can spell out a string of characters as long as four character positions are used for each character icon.<\/p>\n\n\n

For example [uni 20A0002020A0] would be \u20a0 \u20a0 with the 0020 as a space in between.<\/p>\n\n\n

The checkbox options will only affect host groups that contain more than one host entry. If there is more than one host entry, a user creating a new connection will be presented with a menu on the device screen from which they can select the desired host. If the menu is displayed, you can control these two options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n