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

Logging On to a Remote System
Communicating With Remote Systems
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Note Do not confuse the SIGNON linkname command with the SIGNON command (issued with no operands).
SIGNON (issued with no operands) is used to automatically refresh your user ID definition record (if your
system manager makes any security-related changes while you are logged on to NonStop NET/MASTER
MS, for example), and is discussed in Section 2, “User ID Management Services (UMS).”
Password Considerations
If your user ID definition record on the remote system has a password that is different
from your local password, you must include the PASSWORD operand with your
SIGNON command.
Your password is displayed on the command input line; however:
The password is overwritten with blanks in the command echo (either in the OCS
message display area or in the Command Entry facility message display area).
The password is overwritten with blanks in the history buffer (if you retrieve a
SIGNON command from the history buffer, you must reenter the password
portion in order to reissue the command).
The password is not displayed in the activity log.
In a heterogeneous network comprising NonStop NET/MASTER MS systems, SOLVE
management services systems, and NetView systems:
SOLVE management services and NetView systems require uppercase passwords.
NonStop NET/MASTER MS is case-sensitive in relation to passwords.
Therefore:
If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER
MS system, the password can contain both uppercase and lowercase letters.
If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote SOLVE management
services or NetView system, the password must be entered in all uppercase letters.
If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER
MS system from a SOLVE management services or NetView system, the password
defined to NonStop NET/MASTER MS must be uppercase.
If the Remote System Is Inactive
If the link to the remote system is not active, the SIGNON command is queued and
completes automatically when the link becomes active.
Note As soon as the link becomes active, any unsolicited messages are immediately received at your local
terminal. To ensure that all outstanding non-roll-delete messages are redelivered, the initial OCS
command (PROFILE INITCMD) processing at the remote system should include a NRDRET command.