Distributed Systems Network Management (DSNM) Subsystem Interface Development Guide

SPIFFY Subsystem Programmatic Interface
Commands
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SPIFFY Subsystem Programmatic Interface Commands
The SPIFFY subsystem programmatic interface supports informational and state-change
commands.
Informational Commands
The SPIFFY subsystem programmatic interface supports one informational command,
TELLABOUT, which applies to objects of all types and returns everything known about
the object(s) specified by the command. TELLABOUT has the following operands:
Multiple objects can be specified in a TELLABOUT command by supplying an asterisk
(*) as the object name (NAME) or parent name (POP), and the ANYTHING type code
to specify objects of any type. (The asterisk allows you to specify objects and parents of
any name.)
NAME, POP, and TYPE may be used in the following combinations to retrieve
information about objects:
State-Change Commands
State-change commands behave differently for different object types. There are no
state-change commands for the REACTOR object. For the other objects, the following
operations are supported:
State-change commands do not support the asterisk (*) for NAME, nor do they support
the ANYTHING type code.
NAME { objname | * }
POP { objname | * }
TYPE { typecode | ANYTHING }
NAME POP TYPE Returns
Objname1 Objname2 typecode Object Objname1 of type typecode with Pop
Objname2
* Objname2 typecode All objects of type typecode with Pop Objname2
Objname1 * typecode All objects Objname1 of type typecode with any
Pop
* * typecode All objects of type typecode
Objname1 Objname2 ANYTHING Object Objname1 of any type with Pop Objname2
* Objname2 ANYTHING All objects of any type with Pop Objname2
Objname1 * ANYTHING All objects Objname1 of any type with any Pop
* * ANYTHING All objects
BOILER, VALVE, CHAMBER WARMUP, HEATUP, COOLOFF, SHUTOFF
ASSEMBLY GO, DONTGO
COGWHEEL, GEAR LOOSENUP, SPEEDUP, SLOWUP, LOCKUP