TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

Contents
About This Manual........................................................................................8
Product Version........................................................................................................................8
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)..................................................................................8
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................8
Related Manuals......................................................................................................................9
New and Changed Information................................................................................................10
Document Organization..........................................................................................................11
Notation Conventions..............................................................................................................12
Publishing History...................................................................................................................16
HP Encourages Your Comments................................................................................................16
1 Introduction to NonStop TS/MP System Management....................................17
Objects and Processes Provided by NonStop TS/MP 2.5.............................................................17
Objects and Processes Provided by Pathway/iTS.........................................................................18
Pathway Environment Configurations.........................................................................................18
Distributing a Pathway or PATHMON Environment..................................................................20
NonStop TS/MP Objects and Processes....................................................................................22
PATHMON Object.............................................................................................................22
PATHWAY Object..............................................................................................................23
PATHCOM Processes..........................................................................................................23
SERVER Objects.................................................................................................................23
ACS Subsystem Processes...................................................................................................24
Transaction Sources................................................................................................................24
Personal Computers and Workstations..................................................................................25
External TCPs....................................................................................................................25
Intelligent Devices..............................................................................................................26
SNA Devices.....................................................................................................................26
Unsupported or Special-Function I/O Devices........................................................................26
Pathsend Processes.............................................................................................................26
System Management Tasks......................................................................................................27
System Management Tools.......................................................................................................29
PATHCOM Interactive Interface............................................................................................30
Management Programming Interface....................................................................................31
Other System Management Tools.........................................................................................32
Summary of PATHCOM Commands..........................................................................................33
2 Starting and Stopping a PATHMON Environment..........................................34
Steps to Starting and Configuring a PATHMON Environment........................................................34
How the PATHMON Process Builds the Configuration File.......................................................34
Starting a PATHMON Environment............................................................................................35
Starting the PATHMON Process...........................................................................................35
Starting and Using PATHCOM.............................................................................................37
Configuring Global Parameters............................................................................................39
Configuring the PATHMON Process......................................................................................41
Specifying the START Command..........................................................................................41
Shutting Down a PATHMON Environment..................................................................................43
Specifying the ORDERLY Option..........................................................................................44
Specifying the ABORT Option..............................................................................................44
Specifying the IMMEDIATE Option.......................................................................................45
Escalating the Shutdown Operation......................................................................................45
Monitoring Shutdown Status................................................................................................46
Using PATHCOM During Shutdown......................................................................................49
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