Expand Management Programming Manual

CONTENTS
SECTION 5. SPI PROGRAMMING CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE EXPAND
SUBSYSTEM ....................................... 5-1
Building the Command Buffer ............................... 5-1
Discontinuing a Command in Progress ....................... 5-2
Receiving and Decoding the Response Buffer ................ 5-3
Error Handling ............................................ 5-4
Security .................................................. 5-4
SECTION 6. COMMON DEFINITIONS .............................. 6-1
SPI Standard Definitions .................................. 6-1
EMS Standard Definitions .................................. 6-4
Data-Communications Standard Definitions .................. 6-5
Common Definitions for the EXPAND Subsystem ............... 6-8
Buffer Declarations ..................................... 6-9
Private Token and Field Types .......................... 6-10
Predefined Token and Field Values ...................... 6-10
Simple Tokens .......................................... 6-11
Extensible Structured Tokens ........................... 6-12
Tokens in Error Lists .................................. 6-24
Tokens in Event Messages ............................... 6-25
SECTION 7. COMMANDS AND RESPONSES .......................... 7-1
Commands by Object Type ................................... 7-3
Sensitive and Nonsensitive Commands ....................... 7-4
Command Descriptions ...................................... 7-5
ABORT Command ........................................... 7-7
ALTER LINE Command ..................................... 7-11
ALTER PATH Command ..................................... 7-20
ALTER PROCESS Command .................................. 7-25
GETVERSION Command (EXPAND Manager Process) ............ 7-29
GETVERSION Command (Lines and Paths) ................... 7-32
INFO LINE Command ...................................... 7-35
INFO PATH Command ...................................... 7-45
INFO PROCESS Command ................................... 7-50
LOAD Command ........................................... 7-58
PROBE Command .......................................... 7-61
RESET Command .......................................... 7-65
RESETSTATS LINE Command ................................ 7-68
RESETSTATS PATH Command ................................ 7-74
START Command .......................................... 7-79
STATISTICS LINE Command ................................ 7-83
STATISTICS PATH Command ................................ 7-89
STATISTICS PROCESS Command ............................. 7-94
STATUS LINE Command .................................... 7-99
STATUS PATH Command ................................... 7-104
STOP Command .......................................... 7-108
SWITCH Command ........................................ 7-112
TRACE Command (EXPAND Manager Process) ................ 7-116
TRACE Command (NCP Process, Lines, and Paths) ......... 7-121
Examples of Commands and Responses ...................... 7-125
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