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

Terminals Supported
Getting Started With NonStop NET/MASTER MS
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With NonStop NET/MASTER MS, you can:
View event messages generated by both local and remote systems throughout a
network.
Issue commands to remotely control and gather information about any peer
system in the network, and have the responses displayed on your local terminal.
Run Guardian utilities, TACL routines, and other external conversational-mode
utilities, and control the running of Tandem block-mode applications.
Write and execute custom applications and operations management automation
procedures by using the NonStop NET/MASTER Network Control Language
(NCL), a high-level language created specifically for automating system and
network management tasks.
Browse log files, where messages arriving at your local NonStop NET/MASTER
MS system are logged. These messages report activity occurring throughout the
network.
Tailor your individual operations environment.
NonStop NET/MASTER MS provides a hierarchical menu structure and a set of
commands with which you accomplish these network management tasks.
Terminals Supported You can run NonStop NET/MASTER MS from the following terminals:
A Tandem 6530 or compatible terminal
An IBM 3270 or compatible terminal
NonStop NET/MASTER MS supports color and highlighting if such features are
available on your terminal.
Function Key
Conventions
In this manual, function keys are referred to by their Tandem 6530 keyboard names,
followed by their IBM 3270 keyboard equivalents in parentheses: for example, F1
(PF01) function key.
In addition, the key you press to execute a command is always referred to as the
ENTER key. (This is to distinguish it from the RETURN function, which returns you
to the menu from which your current operations facility was invoked and which, in
NonStop NET/MASTER MS, is executed by pressing the F4 (PF04) function key.)
Caution Other keyboards may have different but equivalent function keys; refer to the manual appropriate to the
keyboard you are using. For example, if you are using the PC6530 software to emulate a 6530 terminal
on an IBM PC with a 12-function key keyboard, the equivalent for function key for F13 is Alt and F3.