TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

1 Introduction to NonStop TS/MP System Management
This section briefly describes the objects and processes in a Pathway online transaction processing
(OLTP) environment. This section also introduces the tasks you must perform to manage a PATHMON
environment, as well as applicable tools and commands.
Depending on your hardware and software configuration, a Pathway environment includes one
of these management options:
• The NonStop TS/MP product
• Both the NonStop TS/MP and Pathway/iTS products
NOTE: This manual provides information specific to processes and commands associated with
objects managed through the NonStop TS/MP product. Commands associated with TCP, TERM,
and PROGRAM objects, which are provided by the Pathway/iTS product, are described in the
Pathway/iTS System Management Manual. For information about TS/MP 2.5, see the TS/MP 2.5
Release Supplement.
Your Pathway environment also includes processes and objects that you create. The key elements
of a Pathway environment are listed in the following table. Each element is described in detail
later in this section.
The table presents a comparative architecture of TS/MP versions, namely TS/MP 2.0, 2.1, 2.3,
2.4, and 2.5.
Table 1 Comparative Architecture of TS/MP Versions
TS/MP with NonStop
TuxedoTS/MP 2.0TS/MP 2.1
TS/MP 2.3, 2.4, and
2.5
TS/MP Application
Environment
TS/MP Application
Environment
TS/MP Application
Environment
TS/MP Application
Environment
Application
TS/MP Tuxedo
(Supervisor and
TSMPCOM Processes)
TS/MP 2.0 (Existing
PATHMON and
PATHCOM Processes)
TS/MP 2.1 (Existing
PATHMON and
PATHCOM Processes)
TS/MP 2.3, 2.4, and
2.5 (Updated
PATHMON,
Management and
Control
PATHCOM and new
PDMCOM processes)
Router ProcessLINKMON ProcessApplication Cluster
Services (ACS)
Application Cluster
Services (ACS)
Link Management
HP NonStop J, G or
H-Series Operating
System
HP NonStop J, G or
H-Series Operating
System
HP NonStop G-Series
Operating System
HP NonStop J or
H-Series Operating
System
Operating System
Objects and Processes Provided by NonStop TS/MP 2.5
The elements of a PATHMON environment are provided by the NonStop TS/MP product. Information
about configuring and managing these items is given in this manual.
• PATHMON— The process that defines and manages SERVER objects and—if your environment
includes Pathway/iTS—TCPs, TERM objects, and PROGRAM objects. Each PATHMON
environment includes only one PATHMON process.
• PATHCOM— The interactive interface to the PATHMON process. As an alternative to using
PATHCOM, you can write a management application program, using the Subsystem
Programmatic Interface (SPI).
• SERVER objects— The definitions of server classes (multiple copies of server programs). An
executing server program is called a server process. You use the PATHMON process to
configure and manage Guardian server programs, which reside in the Guardian operating
environment, and OSS server programs, which reside in the OSS operating environment.
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