Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

Contents
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Section 2 Communicating With the DNS Name Manager
Starting a DNS Name Manager Process 2-1
Starting the Name Manager Interactively Using DNSCOM 2-1
Starting the Name Manager Through TACL 2-2
Starting the Name Manager Programmatically 2-3
Guardian 90 Procedure Considerations 2-5
Opening the Name Manager 2-6
Opening the Name Manager Interactively 2-6
Opening the Name Manager Programmatically 2-6
Open Errors 2-7
Closing the DNS Name Manager Process 2-7
Stopping DNS 2-7
The DNS Name Exporter Process 2-8
Running an EMS Consumer Distributor 2-8
Section 3 SPI Programming Considerations for DNS
Definition Files 3-1
Templates 3-3
Naming Guidelines for Applications 3-3
Message Elements for the DNS Subsystem 3-3
Commands 3-3
Object Types 3-4
Object Names 3-4
Event Numbers 3-5
Subjects of Event Messages 3-5
Other Tokens 3-5
Data Lists and Error Lists 3-5
Using SPI to Build Commands and Decode Responses 3-5
Building and Sending a Command Message 3-6
Receiving and Decoding a Response Message 3-7
Error Handling 3-8
TMF Considerations 3-10
Retrieving and Decoding Event Messages 3-11
Event-Management Considerations for DNS 3-12
Critical Events 3-12
Filters 3-13