Availability Guide for Application Design

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Instrumentation Programming Manuals
Instrumentation Programming Manuals
EMS Manual describes the Event Management Service (EMS). EMS is a collection of
processes, tools, and interfaces that provide event message collection and distribution
in the distributed systems environment.
EMS FastStart Manual describes a product that enhances the development of
applications under Distributed Systems Management (DSM) by providing a simple,
cost-effective way for programmers to develop and test event messages.
The DSM Template Services Manual describes the components of DSM Template
Services, which supports the representation of Subsystem Programmatic Interface
(SPI) buffers in display text.
Measure User’s Guide describes how you can gather performance data for your
application for anticipating overuse of resources.
SPI Programming Manual describes the operating system procedures that
programmers call to process SPI messages, presents conventions that regulate
message content and interpretation, provides programming guidelines and examples,
and describes associated data definitions.
SPI Common Extensions Manual describes the extensions to SPI that programmers
can use to manage many HP subsystems. This manual describes SPI commands,
events, errors, data definitions and the Subsystem Control Point (SCP) process.
Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual describes a product that acts a virtual
home terminal for applications by receiving messages and logging them for ease of
access by system operators or programmers. These features are useful in enhancing
the availability of older applications that send application status messages to the
terminal.
The Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User’s Guide and Reference Manual
describes one of many tools for the analysis of performance data.
Other Introductory Manuals
TMF Introduction provides further details on transaction management.
Introduction to Networking for NonStop NS-Series Servers and Introduction to HP
Networking and Data Communications for Himalaya S-Series Servers provide an
overview of HP networking and data communications concepts, tasks, products, and
manuals for their respective servers.
Related Training Classes
Several HP Training classes are available to help you design and build highly available
applications. For course descriptions, contact your HP district sales office or refer to
the Software Education Course Catalog. For course schedules and locations of
customer education facilities, refer to the Software Education Schedule and Price
Guide.