ViewPoint Manual

Functional Description
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Summary of Event Operations
If a displayed message is truncated (because it is longer than 62 characters) or if you
should want an expanded explanation of a given event message, you can request the
additional information by going to the Event Detail screen. The ViewPoint TCP
retrieves the information from the event-detail database through the event-detail server
(a server class of one or more processes) and displays it on your screen. The expanded
explanation, when present, includes probable cause, effect, and recommended action.
For printing and copying of screen information (when you press the Print and Clip
function keys), the ViewPoint TCP communicates with TACL, which communicates the
screen data externally to the Compaq NonStop™ Kernel operating system (not shown in
Figure 5-23).
Summary of Event Operations
Figure 5-24 is a composite of the event-presentation architecture diagrams shown earlier
(Figures 5-18, 5-21, 5-22, and 5-23). It is simplified to show one item of each kind: one
NCN, one remote node, one subsystem generating events, one event collector, one
forwarding distributor, one alternate-events distributor, and one network operator.