TS/MP 2.5 Management Programming Manual

Command Syntax
For tokens that may be present in the command and response buffers but are not listed, see “Unlisted
Tokens” (page 49). For descriptions of tokens and fields, see “SPI and EMS Standard Definitions”
(page 50) through “ZPWY-MAP- Definitions” (page 75).
Command
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ZPWY-CMD-SWITCH
Object Type
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ZPWY-OBJ-PM
Considerations
• Use the Guardian LOOKUPPROCESS procedure to identify the CPUs in which the PATHMON
primary and backup processes are actually running, after you have repeatedly issued the
SWITCH PM command.
• To record the CPU definitions in the PATHMON configuration file, use the CONTROL PM
command.
• Whenever the PATHMON primary or backup process is stopped more than 10 times by a
TACL STOP command, the PATHMON process delays creating a backup process. PATHMON
process delays creating a backup process by 1 minute if stopped 11 times, 2 minutes if stopped
12 times, and so forth.
However, PATHMON process does not delay creating a backup process if any of these occur:
◦ The CPU in which PATHMON process or its backup process is executing fails.
◦ A SWITCH PM command is executed.
◦ A CONTROL PM command is executed with a value in the ZBACKUPCPU field.
In addition to not delaying the creation of a backup process if the preceding conditions occur,
the PATHMON process resets its internal counter. Consequently, 10 more TACL STOP
commands must be executed before the PATHMON process delays creating the backup
process.
SWITCH PM 129