HP-UX SNAplus2 R7 Administration Guide

Managing SNAplus2 from NetView
Using SPCF
The UCF daemon program running on the SNAplus2 computer associated with the service point name
spname (for UCF commands)
commandtext
Supplies the text of the command being issued. For SPCF, this is a command issued to the SNAplus2
command-line administration program. For UCF, it is a command for the HP-UX operating system. For
more information about the commands that can be used, see Section 10.2.1, Restrictions on Administration
Commands Used with SPCF or Section 10.3.2, Permitted Commands.
10.1.4 Uppercase Characters and Escape Characters
Although HP-UX distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters, the NetView program does
not. Instead, it translates all characters into uppercase before sending them to the HP-UX computer. Because RCF
cannot determine whether an alphabetic character received from the host was originally uppercase or lowercase, it
assumes that received characters are intended to be lowercase. Also, the host character set may not support the
square bracket characters
[ and ], which are required in some commands.
RCF provides support for uppercase characters and square bracket characters using the backslash character \,as
follows:
• To include an uppercase character in the command string, include a backslash character before it. Any alphabetic
character not preceded by a backslash is interpreted as lowercase.
• To include the square bracket characters [ and ], use the sequences \( and \), respectively.
• To include the backslash character \ itself, type it twice.
If a single backslash is followed by any other nonalphabetic character, the backslash is ignored and the character is
left unchanged.
Some examples are shown in Table 10–1, Using Escape Characters in RCF Commands.
Table 10–1 Using Escape Characters in RCF Commands
Characters to Produce Input
ABcd \a\bcd
[] \( \)
\a \\a
\[ \\\(
The escape characters you would normally use on the HP-UX command line, to prevent the HP-UX shell from
interpreting special characters, are not required with RCF. For example, do not use escape characters with strings
containing the characters * or $, as you would when entering them on the HP-UX command line. Also, when
using SPCF to issue administration commands, be aware that constant names such as LIST_FROM_NEXT are not
case-sensitive. You do not need to escape these characters to make them uppercase.
10.2 Using SPCF
SPCF enables you to issue commands from the NetView console to manage the running SNAplus2 system.
These commands are the same as those you can issue using the SNAplus2 command-line management program
snapadmin (as described in HP-UX SNAplus2 Administration Command Reference).
For information about the syntax of an SPCF command, see Section 10.1.3, Overview of RCF Command Syntax.
The command text following the appl=node parameter is a command issued to the SNAplus2 command-line
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