ViewPoint Manual

Functional Description
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Status Reporting in Networks
When your task in the ViewPoint TCP has received the information for all 16 items, it
performs the required percentage calculations (compensating for any failed subsystems
that do not report status) and displays the results on the Network Status Summary screen
on your terminal.
When you request another page of status information, your task in the ViewPoint TCP
specifies this request to the status configuration server. In response, the status
configuration server obtains the configuration data for that set of 16 items from your
current status configuration file and returns the data to the ViewPoint TCP. Thus, status
is requested, as before, for these 16 new status items.
Status Reporting in Networks
Figure 5-10 depicts status collection extended to a network—in this case consisting of
one NCN and four remote nodes. Each node is assumed to have four subsystem
processes under the control of one status collection server in each node. Input arrows to
the subsystem processes represent status input from various objects.
As shown, all five status collection servers supply status information to the ViewPoint
TCP in the NCN when commanded to do so. The network ViewPoint TCP then displays
the received status information on the Network Status Summary screen.