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Terminal

Use this step to connect to and automate a terminal. See Automate Terminals and Basic Terminal Tutorial for details.

Properties

Emulator
Select the emulator for your terminal. Kofax 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 so forth. See Automate Terminals for details.