Introduction to Networking for NonStop S-Series Servers

HP NonStop S-Series Systems Network Architecture
(SNA) Network Connections
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SNA Subsystem Management
SNA Subsystem Management
HP provides utilities for configuring and managing SNAX products, including the
means for sending management information to an SNA host.
Integration With DSM
The SNAX product family is integrated with DSM. (DSM is described in Section 4,
Managing Communications Subsystems.) You can use NonStop NET/MASTER
Management Services (MS) or SCF to control SNAX/XF, SNAX/APN, and SNAX/APC.
(You use a product-specific utility, HLSCOM, for SNAX/HLS, however.) You can also
write applications that use Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) messages to
control the SNAX/XF and SNAX/APN subsystems.
SNAX/XF, SNAX/APN, SNAX/APC, and SNAX/HLS subsystems report noteworthy
events to the Event Management Service (EMS). Operators can use NonStop
NET/MASTER MS, or the OSM Event Viewer or TSM EMS Event Viewer to display the
event messages, and management applications can retrieve those messages
programmatically.
Integration With NetView and NET/MASTER
HP offers two ways to integrate HP systems with NetView or NET/MASTER on IBM
systems in an SNA network: NonStop NET/MASTER MS software and DSM/SNAView
software.
NonStop NET/MASTER MS Inter-NET/MASTER Connection
(INMC)
NonStop NET/MASTER MS software allows you to both send commands to and
receive messages from either NET/MASTER or (with additional third-party software)
NetView on an IBM mainframe or host computer. Its Inter-NET/MASTER Connection
(INMC) provides a peer-level, logical connection to remote management applications,
regardless of the underlying communications protocols used to connect the computers
on which the applications execute.
The INMC link not only supports the exchange of solicited and unsolicited messages
for console displays, but it also allows authorized users to log onto remote NonStop
NET/MASTER or NET/MASTER management applications.
A single INMC link to a remote NonStop S-series server can use SNA, X.25, and
Expand lines simultaneously, enabling you to achieve the maximum level of data
transfer using your hardware and software.