NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) Operator's Guide

Running NetStatus
Accessing External Utilities and Applications
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Running NetStatus NetStatus is an object-oriented, full-screen user interface that provides a central
operations environment from which you can:
Monitor the current state of objects in a network.
Control and display information about subsystem objects either through function
keys or by invoking DSNM subsystem commands.
Note The NetStatus application is supported for Tandem 6530 or compatible terminals only.
If the NetStatus product is available on your system and your system manager has
started the NetStatus Pathway process, you can access it. If you have access to
Console Extras, you can ask your system manager to add the NetStatus utility to your
Console Extras utility list to enable you to access NetStatus through Console Extras.
Otherwise, you have to access NetStatus from either the OCS command line, the
Command Entry command line, or the Activity Log Browse facility command line, by
starting the NETSTAT NCL procedure using the following syntax.
NETSTAT [ NOCOLOR ] [ DISPLAY filename ]
NOCOLOR
specifies that your terminal does not support color.
DISPLAY filename
specifies the file to be used as the startup NetStatus display set. The display set
identifies the objects in your network that you can monitor and control from the
NetStatus Network Status screen. Display sets are described in detail in the
NetStatus User’s Guide. If your system manager has defined a file in your user ID
definition record (Installation Attribute 1), you need not explicitly specify this file.
NetStatus uses the file defined in your Installation Attribute 1 field as the display
set.
Note The NETSTAT NCL procedure suspends your terminal output (in the same way as the PROGRUN
command) as long as you are in NetStatus.
If you frequently enter and exit from the NetStatus application and usually use the
same display set, you may find it convenient to set up an equate to access the
NetStatus application. The next example shows how to use the EQUATE command to
abbreviate a long NETSTAT command string to just three characters—NET:
EQUATE NET NETSTAT NOCOLOR DISPLAY $DATA.ZNNMNCS.DISPSET