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

Sending Commands Through Intermediate Systems
Communicating With Remote Systems
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The results of the command are returned to either:
The window where the command was invoked (OCS, Command Entry, or
Activity Log Browse)
The NCL process that issued the command with an NCL INTCMD verb
The owner of the NCL process that issued the command with an NCL CMD
statement
Note Messages have a data structure that NCL processes can analyze. Refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER
NCL Programmer’s Guide for more information.
By default, when the results of a command executed on a remote system are displayed,
they are prefixed by a message identifier enclosed in parentheses. The message
identifier is defined when the INMC link to the remote system is defined, but you can
override it by using the SIGNON ID= msg-id operand if you explicitly log on to the
remote system. You can also specify that the message identifier not be prefixed to
messages from a remote system by including the PREFIX=NO operand with your
SIGNON command. Finally, you may request that the message identifier not be
enclosed in parentheses by including a PAREN=NO operand with your SIGNON
command.
The results of the command are displayed with any background color, text color, and
highlighting attributes associated with the INMC link, but you can also override these
attributes with the BKGCOLOR, COLOR, and HLITE operands of the SIGNON
command.
Sending Commands
Through Intermediate
Systems
To issue a command to a NonStop NET/MASTER MS, SOLVE management services,
or NetView system that is not directly connected to your local system but is connected
by an intermediate system, specify a path using the links that connect the end points.
The ROUTE command can route another ROUTE or SIGNON command. In this way,
you can communicate with remote systems through intermediate NonStop
NET/MASTER MS or SOLVE management services systems (an intermediate system
cannot be a NetView system). For example:
ROUTE LINK1 ROUTE LINK2 ROUTE LINK3 SHOW USERS
The following list describes the sequence of steps in executing the above command
string.
1. Your system executes the first ROUTE command and sends the command string
ROUTE LINK2 ROUTE LINK3 SHOW USERS to the first intermediate system
through LINK1.
2. The first intermediate system executes the second ROUTE command and sends the
command string ROUTE LINK3 SHOW USERS to the second intermediate system
through LINK2.