TMF Management Programming Manual (H06.05+)

Communicating With the TMFSERVE Process

HP NonStop TMF Management Programming Manual—540140-002

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Naming TMFSERVE

The name of a TMFSERVE process has the following form:

$process.#ZSPI

$process

is the name of a TMFSERVE process and begins with a dollar sign ($) followed by

a letter. If the name of the TMFSERVE process is not to be used in a network it

can include up to 5 alphanumeric characters after the dollar sign; otherwise it can

include 4 alphanumeric characters after the dollar sign.

#ZSPI

is a process name qualifier indicating that the OPEN is for the purpose of

communicating using the SPI procedures.

Closing TMFSERVE

To close the TMFSERVE process, use one of the following:

Running an EMS Consumer Distributor

Before your management application can retrieve event messages generated by TMF,

you must start an Event Management Service (EMS) consumer distributor process. A

consumer distributor returns selected event messages to a requesting management

application. You need to open the consumer distributor for SPI communication, and

then specify the source of event messages by using a CONTROL command. The

EMS Manual provides full details.

To avoid receiving all event messages from all subsystem (something you will rarely

want to do), you must install a filter to select only those messages your application

intends to act upon. You install your filter when you start the consumer distributor.

Filters are written in the EMS filter language, which is described in the EMS Manual.

TAL The CLOSE or FILE_CLOSE_ procedure on the NonStop OS

COBOL85 The CLOSE verb

TACL The #REQUESTER built-in function