Terminal

Use this step to connect to and automate a terminal. See Automate terminal emulators and Basic terminal tutorial for details.

Properties

Emulator

Select the emulator for your terminal. Tungsten RPA supports connection to and interaction with 3270, 5250, 6530, and stream-based (vt100 and ANSI) terminals.

Action

Select an action to perform by the step. It can be either Connect or Connect (SSH).

Host

Specify the terminal name or IP address and the port number if necessary. For example, TerminalServer:25

Credentials

If you select Connect (SSH) in the Action list, you can specify a user name and password to connect to the terminal in this property.

Options

Select to specify any connection options for the selected terminal, such as set color support, create a trace file, set a number of buffered lines, and other. See Automate terminal emulators for details.