The Operations Sentinel Console to the host system is through a terminal emulation session. Operations Sentinel levels 11.x and later support Telnet, INFOConnect terminal emulation and Web Enabler. Operations Sentinel level 11.x supports Web Enabler. This gives the operator access to all of the operations interfaces controlled by the Transaction Server for ClearPath MCP (formerly Communications Management System (COMS)). These include Command and Edit (CANDE), Menu-Assisted Resource Control (MARC), and the remote operator display terminal (ODT). The ODT is the primary operator interface to the system.

While using Operations Sentinel Console, you can open a terminal emulation session to a MCP host system by clicking the Managed Object representing that host system in Operations Sentinel Console.

In Operations Sentinel levels 11.x and later, you can write a Common Accessory Script Language (CASL) macro to be used as a session startup macro by INFOConnect, which will supply your usercode and password when you open a terminal emulation session.

Windows Telnet does not support userid and password parameters on its call line, so if you use Telnet for your terminal session, you must log in manually.

When an Operations Sentinel server connects with or disconnects from the agent, the interface software sends massages that are similar to the server identification messages sent by the %SPOSERVERS command. See Section 6.