TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

9 PATHMON and PATHCOM Startup Commands
This section describes the TACL commands for starting the PATHMON process and PATHCOM.
Before starting PATHCOM, you must start the PATHMON process, the central control process of
a Pathway environment. The default name of the PATHMON object file is
$SYSTEM.SYSTEM.PATHMON.
NOTE: When using TS/MP 2.5, HP recommends that you use PDMCOM instead of PATHCOM
because it can communicate with multiple PATHMONs simultaneously. For more information on
PDMCOM, see the TS/MP 2.5 Release Supplement.
Starting the PATHMON Process
You start the PATHMON process by entering the PATHMON command through the TACL command
interpreter.
PATHMON / NAME $process-name [ , run-option ]... /
run-option is:
CPU number
INSPECT ON | SAVEABEND
NOWAIT
OUT log1-file
PRI number
$process-name
is the name of the PATHMON process. The name can be a maximum of 6
characters. $
process-name
begins with a dollar sign ($), followed by 1 to 5 alphanumeric characters. The first
alphanumeric character must be a letter.
If the PATHMON process name is to be used across a network, $process-name can
be no longer than 5 characters, that is, a dollar sign ($) followed by no more than
4 alphanumeric characters (for example, $abc2).
This parameter is required.
NOTE: If multiple Pathway environments are configured on a node, do not specify the name
$PM for any PATHMON process on that node. Because $PM is the default name used when
someone opens communication with PATHCOM without specifying a PATHMON name, your
commands might be applied to the wrong Pathway environment.
run-option
is one of the TACL RUN [D] command run options. For details about the RUN
[D] run options, see the TACL Reference Manual.
CPU number
specifies the processor where the primary PATHMON process runs. This number
can be the number of any processor on your system from 0 through 15. The backup
processor is specified with the SET PATHMON command and the BACKUPCPU
parameter.
If you omit this parameter, the default is the processor used by the TACL command
interpreter. Using the default parameter can cause an error later if the PATHMON
process attempts to start its backup process in the same processor.
Starting the PATHMON Process 133