TS/MP Management Programming Manual (H06.05+, J06.03+)

Introduction
HP NonStop TS/MP Management Programming Manual—540082-005
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Which Sections Do You Need?
Which Sections Do You Need?
This manual is organized into logical groups of information for easy reference.
Table 1-2 is a descriptive map indicating which sections are relevant to particular
operating environments.
Architecture and Components
The Pathway subsystem includes a group of related software tools that enable your
organization to develop, install, and manage online transaction processing
applications.
Transaction processing applications consist of two types of programs: requester
programs (called clients in other environments) and server programs. Among other
benefits, the requester/server design allows application logic to be distributed near the
resources it manages. For example, presentation services are located in requester
programs near the I/O devices; database logic resides in server programs near the
database. Requesters and servers communicate using the message system provided
by the NonStop operating system.
Link managers (such as LINKMON processes or ACS subsystem processes and
Pathway/iTS terminal control processes (TCPs)) coordinate the sharing of links
between requesters and server processes. The PATHMON process, in addition to
creating, configuring, and globally managing server classes, grants links to link
managers that request access to server processes.
Table 1-2. Configuration and Manual Correspondences
If Your Configuration
Includes… You Need… To Perform these actions…
Pathway subsystem Section 8
Section 8
Start the PATHMON process
Manage the Pathway subsystem (the
PATHMON process and all objects controlled
by it)
SPI management
interface
Section 2
Section 3
Sections 4-7
Sections 10-
14
Sections 15-
16
Section 17
Learn how to do management programming
Learn TS/MP-specific programming
information
Look up definitions of command and response
tokens
Look up event and error messages
See management programming examples
See error-handling examples
Servers Section 9 Define and control SERVER objects