Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

What’s in This Manual?
About This Manual
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What’s in This
Manual?
Sections 1 through 3 of this manual give background information and programming
considerations, including the following:
What types of objects are managed by DNS and the operations necessary to
manage these objects (Section 1)
How a management application fits into the DNS subsystem architecture
(Section 1)
How to set up communications with the DNS subsystem, including how to start
the DNS name manager process either interactively or programmatically
(Section 2)
Programming considerations for management applications that manage DNS
(Section 3)
How to build commands and decode responses using SPI procedures (Section 3)
Sections 4 through 6 provide reference information, as follows:
Subsystem-specific information about tokens, token values, and related standard
definitions that are used by the DSM interfaces to DNS (Section 4)
Descriptions of tokens, token values, and related definitions defined by DNS
(Section 4)
Detailed descriptions of programmatic commands that can be directed to the DNS
subsystem and their corresponding responses from DNS (Section 5)
Detailed descriptions of all event messages generated by DNS (Section 6)
Appendix A gives reference tables for all DNS token codes and token maps.
Appendix B provides a list of DNS event tokens that appear in DNS event messages
only. Appendix C provides error lists defined by the Guardian 90 operating system.
Appendix D provides detailed descriptions of all errors defined by DNS and their
corresponding error lists.
Appendixes E, F, G, and H provide examples of management applications that direct
commands to DNS and retrieve DNS event messages. The sample programs provided
in Appendixes E, F, G, and H perform the same operations; yet each sample program
is written in a different programming language: COBOL85, TACL, TAL, and C.
Appendix I provides an overview of the differences between the C-series and D-series
operating systems that affect the way you use the Event Management Service (EMS)
on D-series systems.
At the end of this manual, immediately preceding the index, is a glossary. The
glossary defines relevant DNS terms and Tandem terms.