HP-UX SNAplus2 R7 Administration Guide

Administering SNAplus2
Overview of SNAplus2 Administration
Before starting the Motif administration program, make sure the SNAplus2 software is enabled (for more information,
see Chapter 3, Administering SNAplus2). As with any X/Motif application, you may also need to set up the DISPLAY
environment variable to indicate a suitable X server.
To start the Motif administration program in the background, issue the following command:
xsnapadmin &
All started SNAplus2 servers are shown on the main screen. For those that have already been configured, the
program enables you to select a node, and then displays the selected node’s configuration. Otherwise, the program
prompts you to select a node and leads you through the required steps to define it.
For more information about how to use the Motif administration program to define and manage SNAplus2 resources,
see Section 3.4.1, Invoking the Motif Administration Program, or refer to the help screens provided by the program.
Note
The Motif administration program enables you to set up all required parameters for standard
SNAplus2 configurations. For advanced parameters, the Motif administration program
supplies default values. You need to supply only the essential configuration information,
which enables you to set up SNA communications quickly and easily.
The other SNAplus2 administration tools, including command-line configuration, and NOF
application programs, provide access to a wider range of configuration parameters and
options than those shown in the Motif administration program. In most cases, however,
you can perform all needed configuration from the Motif administration program, because
it exposes the key fields you need to configure and hides the fields that most users should
not need to modify. The default values supplied by command-line configuration may differ
from those supplied by the Motif administration program, because the Motif program can
choose values more intelligently based on the context of the configuration task you are
performing.
If you need to use these additional functions, you can still use the Motif administration
program to set up the basic configuration, and use the other administration tools to specify
the additional functions. When you later use the Motif administration program to manage
the modified configuration, the program retains the changes you made using the other
tools, although the additional functions you have configured are not displayed in the Motif
program.
ASCII Administration Program
A menu-based ASCII administration program is available for character-based terminals. The ASCII interface
provides a subset of all functions available through the Motif administration program and can be used to configure
and manage SNAplus2.
The ASCII program is used through the HP ObAM environment. To start the program, issue the following command:
snap2adm
Refer to the online help provided for more information on how to use the program.
Command-Line Administration Program
The command-line administration program, snapadmin, enables you to issue commands to manage individual
SNAplus2 resources. You can use
snapadmin either directly from the HP-UX command prompt or from within
a shell script.
Commands can be issued to a specific SNAplus2 node to manage the node’s resources, to the SNA network data
file to manage master and backup servers, or to the domain configuration file to manage domain resources.
Some administration commands, defined in HP-UX SNAplus2 Administration Command Reference, explicitly
say that they can be issued from a HP-UX client. For all other commands, you can only issue command-line
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