NBX Manual

Glossary
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Glossary-16
ViewPoint console application
ViewPoint console application. An extensible interactive application for operators, provided
as part of Distributed Systems Management (DSM). ViewPoint allows a system or a
network to be controlled from a single terminal. It includes several block-mode display
screens for event messages, a block-mode display for system or network status, a
conversational Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
screen, and a facility
called Define Process to maintain sessions with multiple subsystems at the same time.
wait mode. In the Compaq NonStop Kernel operating system, the mode in which the called
procedure waits for the completion of an I/O operation before returning a condition code
to the caller. Compare nowait mode
.
warning. In Distributed Systems Management (DSM)
interfaces, a condition encountered in
performing a command or other operation that can be significant but that does not cause
the command or operation to fail. A warning is less serious than an error
.
well-known port. Any of a set of protocol ports preassigned for specific uses by transport-
level protocols (that is, TCP and UDP). Servers follow the well-known port assignments
so clients can locate them. Examples of well-known port numbers include ports assigned
to echo servers, time servers, remote logon (Telnet
) servers, and file transfer protocol
(FTP) servers.
wildcards. See object-name template
.
WSPTP. See MULTILAN WSPTP
Xerox Network Services (XNS). Early networking protocol suite that is the basis for many
network architectures, including NetWare.
XNS. See WSPTP
.
$ZZLAN. See LAN Manager (LANMAN) process
.
$ZMGR. The process that provides the interface between the NonStop IPX/SPX subsystem
and the Distributed Systems Management (DSM)
Subsystem Control Point (SCP),
which is named $ZNET.
$ZNET. The default Subsystem Control Point (SCP)
process that routes Subsystem Control
Facility (SCF) commands to the appropriate subsystem processes.