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

Introduction to NonStop TS/MP System
Management
HP NonStop TS/MP System Management Manual—541819-007
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PATHCOM Interactive Interface
tasks associated with starting, maintaining, and stopping an environment or
maintaining a state.
Whether you use the PATHCOM interactive interface or the management programming
interface to manage your PATHMON environment may depend on the complexity and
frequency of your system management tasks. The more complex or repetitive your
system management tasks, the more advantageous it is to use a management
programming interface.
Your choice might also depend on the availability of resources to develop a
management application, which is a sophisticated programming assignment, or on the
availability of other products, such as NonStop NET/MASTER. (NonStop
NET/MASTER belongs to the set of HP management products known collectively as
Distributed Systems Management (DSM), which is described in Distributed Systems
Management.)
PATHCOM Interactive Interface
PATHCOM provides commands for defining and managing a PATHMON environment.
PATHCOM also provides online help and error messages.
PATHCOM functions, usage, and command syntax are given in Section 8, Overview of
PATHCOM through Section 12, SERVER Commands of this manual. A summary of
PATHCOM command syntax appears in Appendix A, Syntax Summary.
Using PATHCOM, which consists of sets of object-related commands, you can
interactively define and manage all PATHMON-controlled objects. PATHCOM runs
some of these object-related commands; other commands are processed by the
PATHMON process and might involve one or more TCP or LINKMON processes or
ACS subsystem processes in the execution. For example:
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You define PATHMON-controlled object configurations, start and stop objects, and
obtain status information about objects by entering commands that PATHCOM
passes directly to the PATHMON process.
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You request server-class performance statistics by issuing a STATS SERVER
command. PATHCOM passes the request directly to the PATHMON process,
which passes the request to the link managers, such as the TCPs and LINKMON
processes or ACS subsystem processes. The link managers run the command by
gathering and returning statistical information about their links to the specified
server class.
PATHCOM allows you to enter commands interactively through a terminal or from a
command file or TACL script. For more information about using command files and
TACL scripts, see Section 2, Starting and Stopping a PATHMON Environment.
Note. PDMCOM does not support SPI commands.