Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

About This Manual
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Sections 5 through 7 provide reference information and overview information about
DNSCOM as follows:
How DNS exports (distributes) the DNS database (Section 5)
Descriptions of DNS keywords and interfaces (Section 6)
Various ways to enter DNSCOM commands (Section 6)
Individual descriptions of the DNSCOM commands (Section 7)
Appendix A lists the steps DNSCOM takes to verify a configuration file. Appendix B
lists the DNSCOM error messages. Appendix C lists the DNS reserved words.
At the end of this manual, immediately preceding the index, is a glossary. The
glossary defines relevant DNS terms and Tandem terms.
What Related
Publications Are
Available?
The following list contains the other Tandem manuals you should read for
background before you read this manual, and those to which you may need to refer
while using this manual.
You should also be familiar with the manuals that describe appropriate subsystems
whose objects are to be represented in the DNS database.
Introduction to Tandem NonStop Systems describes the application environment,
architecture, and networking of NonStop systems and explains basic concepts, terms,
and entities in the NonStop environment.
Introduction to Distributed Systems Management (DSM) introduces the set of software
products collectively called Distributed Systems Management. It also discusses
support for DSM within individual Tandem subsystems.
Guardian 90 Operating System Programmer’s Guide describes how to use the
Guardian 90 operating system procedure calls, including the file-system procedures.
Guardian 90 Operating System User’s Guide describes basic tasks that all users can
perform with the interactive operating system utility programs.
Distributed Systems Management (DSM) Programming Manual describes the Subsystem
Programmatic Interface (SPI), which is used for management programming of
Tandem subsystems. SPI provides a set of procedure calls and a set of definition files
to be used in management programs.
Event Management Service (EMS) Manual describes the Event Management Service, a
facility for management of event messages generated by subsystems. EMS provides
event-message collector and distributor processes, a set of higher-level procedure calls
built on the SPI procedures, and a set of definition files.
Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management and Programming Manual provides
subsystem-specific information about the management-programming interface to
DNS.