Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual (H06.03+)

Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual—429311-001
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3 Using VHS
This section describes how to use VHS. It has the following subsections:
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Before using VHS
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Starting VHS
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Specifying VHS as the home terminal of applications
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How VHS manages messages
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Configuring VHS Inspect processing
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Understanding the VHS log files
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Stopping VHS
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Using VHS with a ViewPoint filter
Before Using VHS
Before you can use VHS, you need to determine which applications should use VHS
as a home terminal.
To use VHS with an application, follow these steps:
1. Start VHS.
2. Stop the application.
3. Configure the application so that the VHS process is its home terminal. (See the
subsection Specifying VHS as the Home Terminal of Applications later in this
section.)
4. Start the application.
Because the application is not available between the time you stop it and restart it, you
need to plan how to integrate VHS in your application environment to minimize
application downtime.
Starting VHS
To run VHS, locate and invoke the startup file created during the installation process.
For example, if the VHS startup file VHSSTART was created on $SYSTEM.STARTUP,
then you would type the following command:
1> OBEY $SYSTEM.STARTUP.VHSSTART
Caution. The hometerm of VHS should be a physical (static) device. A dynamic device, such
as a Telnet window, might cause problems when it is terminated.