TMF Management Programming Manual (H06.05+)

HP NonStop TMF Management Programming Manual—540140-002

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SPI Programming Considerations for

TMF

Once your subsystem and EMS processes are running and your management

application has established communication with the TMFSERVE process, the main

business of your management application is to format and send commands, decode

responses and act on the results, and interpret event messages and act on their

information.

This section provides some summary information and discusses SPI programming

considerations that are specific to TMF.

This section contains the following topics:

For a complete list of all token codes and token maps specific to TMF, see the

ZTMFDDL file.

Definition Files

The commands, responses, and event messages sent to and received from TMF are

made up of items called tokens. Each token contains a particular piece of information,

such as a command parameter or an item of information about an event. Tokens can

be single values or structures consisting of several values. Some tokens, called

header tokens, are present in every command and response, and/or in every event

message.

Tokens and related data items for commands, responses, and event messages must

be declared in your management applications, and HP provides these declarations for

you in definition files. A set of definition files is provided as part of each HP subsystem

that supports DSM, and a few other software components (such as SPI and EMS)

also provide definition files. Each such software component includes definition files for

the TAL, COBOL85, TACL, and DDL languages.

To be able to use the data declarations defined by a particular HP software component,

your application must incorporate the appropriate programming-language definition file

associated with that software component. The declarations in a COBOL85 definition

Topic Page

Definition Files

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Message Elements for TMF 3-3

Using SPI to Build Commands and Decode Responses 3-5

Retrieving and Decoding Event Messages 3-8

Templates and Labels 3-10

Naming Guidelines for Applications 3-11