TMF Management Programming Manual (H06.06+, J06.03+)

HP NonStop TMF Management Programming Manual—540140-010
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Communicating With the
TMFSERVE Process
A management application communicates with TMF through the Subsystem
Programmatic Interface (SPI). It retrieves event messages from TMF through the Event
Management Service (EMS).
This section contains the following topics:
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Communicating With the TMFSERVE Process on page 2-1
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Starting and Opening TMFSERVE on page 2-2
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Closing TMFSERVE on page 2-3
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Running an EMS Consumer Distributor on page 2-3
Communicating With the TMFSERVE Process
The TMFSERVE process supports management applications written in TAL,
COBOL85, TACL, or C.
When writing a management application using the TMFSERVE process, use the
following guidelines:
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It is not a process pair
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It can be opened by a primary process or its backup
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It can be opened by a requester only once
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It can be opened by up to 10 requesters at a time
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It can be started by any user that has execute access to the TMFSERVE object file
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It responds to one request before it begins work on another (it is single-threaded)
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It can accept a sync depth of 0 or 1
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It does not support multiple outstanding requests from the same requester
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It can only manage TMF on the system where it is running
If you want to manage TMF on a remote system, you must establish communication
with a TMFSERVE process on that system.
If you want to make audit dumps or online dumps using a tape drive on another
system, that system must have labeled-tape processing configured by SYSGEN.