Envoy ACP/XF Configuration and Management Manual

Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) for EnvoyACP/XF

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EnvoyACP/XF Object Types and Object Names

PROFILE

The WAN subsystem contains several SCF objects, including the DEVICE and

PROFILE objects. The PROFILE object is a user-created, SCF object containing

default modifier values pertaining to the communications line. You build the PROFILE

object from disk files, or templates, which come with the EnvoyACP/XF product. These

disk files come with default modifier values for each communications protocol

(ADCCP-ABM, ADCCP-NRM, HDLC, and SDLC).

DEVICE

The WAN subsystem contains several SCF objects, including the DEVICE and

PROFILE objects. For EnvoyACP/XF, the DEVICE object represents the line-handler

process. Starting the DEVICE object in the WAN subsystem launches the line-handler

process object in the EnvoyACP/XF subsystem. The line-handler process inherits the

DEVICE object’s modifier and attribute definitions.

The DEVICE object has attributes specifying how the DEVICE runs as a process, such

as which CPU the process runs in and which concentrator the process uses. One

specifiable attribute of the DEVICE object is the PROFILE object.

PROCESS

A PROCESS object defines an EnvoyACP/XF line handler.

Format

PROCESS object names must take the format $Axxxxxx where A is an alphabetic

character and xxxxxx is up to six alphanumeric characters. The PROCESS object

name is the same as the corresponding LINE object name and must be unique within a

system. An example is $EXF1.

LINE

A LINE object defines a communications line controlled by EnvoyACP/XF and is

named automatically with the same name as the PROCESS object. LINE object names

must take the format of $Axxxxxx, where A is an alphabetic character and xxxxxx is up

to six alphanumeric characters.) An example is $EXF1.