Event Management Service (EMS) Analyzer Manual

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Command Components

This section contains a description of the basic syntactic components used with EMS

Analyzer. The command components that are described in this section are as follows:

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Objects and Object Lists

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Attributes and Attribute Values

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Strings, Integers, and Time Values

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Disk File Names

Objects and Object Lists

Objects are the entities that can be configured, controlled, and inquired about using EMS

Analyzer. Many EMS Analyzer commands accept a list of object names in place of a

single object name. Listing multiple object names requires a pair of parentheses and

commas to separate each object. Commands are applied to all the objects in an object

list. For example, the commands ASSUME DISTRIBUTOR ($DIS1, $DIS2) and INFO

($DIS1, $DIS2) apply to both distributors: $DIS1 and $DIS2.

Object Spec

The variable object-spec is used throughout the command descriptions to represent

all variations of object references.

The general format of object-spec is as follows:

object-type

is a specific keyword identifying the type of object referenced.

object-name

is the name of a single object. The general form of object-name is as follows:

[ $device ]

$device

is the name of a logical device controlled by a subsystem. The device name

consists of an alphabetic character followed by zero to four alphanumeric

characters with no embedded blanks, for example, a process identifier.

Object-type designates the type of object or objects to be acted upon by the

command. In EMS Analyzer, the only valid object type is a DISTRIBUTOR. If you do

not want to retype the object-type for each command that requires an object-

[ object-type ] [ object-name ]

[ (object-name [, object-name ]... ) ]