Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

Ways to Use DNS Programmatically
Introducing Distributed Name Service
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Figure 1-2. Retrieving a Subsystem-Object Name
Network management
application sends command
with subsystem-object name
to Subsystem Control Point.
4
User enters
status command.
1
DNS
S8121-002
SCP
NMA
SNAX/XF
LINE467
STATUS \A.$LINE4
(SPI command)
DNS returns
subsystem-object
name used by
operating system.
3
Network management
application sends alias
to DNS.
2
Subsystem Control Point
forwards command to
appropriate subsystem.
5
\A.$LINE4
(SNAX line)
STATUS
LINE46
(Network Control Node)