Loading the PortAssist Manager Communication Agent: Novell NetWare

Use this procedure to start the PortAssist Manager communication agent and, if you so choose, to ensure it is automatically loaded each time the system is initialized. PortAssist Manager can monitor and manage your Digi adapters. To read about and use PortAssist Manager, go to PortAssist Manager Users Guide.

Requirements

The drivers for the Digi adapters to be monitored by PortAssist Manager must have already been installed.

Procedure

From the Novell NetWare Console, do the following:

1. Determine how you will want to use the communication agent.

If you want to manually load the communication agent (without booting), enter at the command line prompt:

load digipama [UDP_port_number]  

where UDP_Port_Number is the number of the communication agent's UDP port, if different from the default.

Note: The default UDP number is 2362, which was assigned to Digi by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA). Although you can change this port number, it should not be necessary. If another application uses it, the best way to resolve the conflict is to reconfigure the application to use another UDP port number, one that has not been assigned by the IANA. 

If you want the communication agent automatically loaded at startup, continue with the next step.

2. Enter one of the following commands:

load install (Novell NetWare 4.11 and later)
load nwconfig (Novell NetWare 5.x)

3. Choose NCF Options > Edit AUTOEXEC.NCF.

   The autoexec.ncf file is displayed.

4. Navigate to the end of the file.
5. Add the following line:  

           load digipama

6. Save the file and exit the editor.
7. Restart the server to load the communication agent.
8. Verify that the communication agent is installed by entering:

        modules digipama

   If the agent has been properly loaded, a message appears indicating that the module is loaded.

Note: If you no longer want the communication agent loaded automatically, delete the command you entered in Step 5.