TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

About This Manual
This manual provides guidelines and examples for configuring and managing the J06.11 and
subsequent RVUs, and H06.22 and subsequent RVUs of TS/MP, which run on HP Integrity
NonStop™ Servers and HP Integrity NonStop™ BladeSystem. This manual is one of the set of
manuals that describes the TS/MP and Pathway/iTS. The contents of these two products are as
follows:
• NonStop TS/MP: This product consists of the PATHMON process, the application cluster
services (ACS) subsystem processes, the PATHCOM process and interface, the PDMCOM
process, the PDMI and the Pathsend procedure calls.
• Pathway/iTS: This product consists of the terminal control process (TCP), the SCREEN COBOL
compiler and run-time environment, and the SCREEN COBOL Utility Program (SCUP).
Together with the TMF and TMF subsystem, TS/MP forms the foundation for HP’s open transaction
processing and client/server products.
The Pathway/iTS product supports requestor programs that run in the Guardian environment and
communicate with terminals and intelligent devices. It requires the services of the NonStop TS/MP
product.
Purpose of This Manual
This manual is both a task-oriented manual and a reference manual. It describes how to start,
configure, and manage a PATHMON environment using the PATHCOM interactive management
interface to NonStop TS/MP. It describes TACL commands and PATHCOM commands used to
start, configure, and manage a PATHMON controlled environment on NonStop systems. This
manual also includes information on monitoring and adjusting your PATHMON environment to
optimize performance, diagnosing and fixing problems, as well as manageability guidelines such
as how to start PATHMON-controlled objects in parallel to help performance.
It also provides syntax and complete descriptions of all PATHCOM commands and PATHCOM,
PATHMON, and ACS subsystem messages.
If your environment includes Pathway/iTS, you must use this manual in conjunction with the
Pathway/iTS System Management Manual, which provides information for configuring and
controlling Pathway/iTS objects in a PATHMON environment. Read this manual first for an overview
of the PATHMON environment and to find out how Pathway/iTS objects are supported.
Product Version
NonStop TS/MP 2.5.
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)
This publication supports J06.11 and all subsequent J-series RVUs and H06.22 and all subsequent
H-series RVUs, until otherwise indicated by the replacement publications.
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for those individuals responsible for starting, configuring, and managing
a PATHMON environment, using the PATHCOM interactive interface. It is assumed that readers
have a general knowledge of NonStop software programming concepts.
The task-oriented section of this manual are also intended for individuals writing programs to
manage server classes in a PATHMON environment programmatically. Such programmers also
need the reference information in the TS/MP 2.5 Management Programming Manual. Programmers
using Pathway/iTS must also see the Pathway/iTS Management Programming Manual.
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