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

The Primary Menu Options
Getting Started With NonStop NET/MASTER MS
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The Primary Menu
Options
The options displayed in the preceding NonStop NET/MASTER MS Primary Menu let
you perform the following functions:
Operator Control Services (OCS) is the central NonStop NET/MASTER MS
management service. It provides a network operations control environment to
perform the following:
Enter NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands to control and retrieve
information about the subsystems and objects on your network, and to
customize your NonStop NET/MASTER MS operations environment
Monitor event messages in the network
OCS is described in detail in Section 4, “Operator Control Services (OCS).”
The Edit Services facility allows you to create, modify, browse, and delete
Network Control Language (NCL) procedures, panel description files, and other
edit files with the Tandem full-screen editor, TEDIT. It also provides facilities for
checking NCL source files, for listing NCL syntax errors, and for testing panels.
Edit Services is described in detail in Section 9, “Using Edit Services.”
The Console Extras facility provides you with a panel that displays a utility list.
You can access up to 16 external utilities from the panel: that is, Guardian block-
mode utilities and application programs that exist independently of NonStop
NET/MASTER MS. NonStop NET/MASTER MS can be configured with a
customized set of Console Extra programs, or the individual user can have a
personal Console Extras utility list.
Console Extras is described in detail in Section 7, “Accessing External Utilities and
Applications.” A User ID Management Services option to browse Console Extras
utility lists is described in Section 2, “User ID Management Services (UMS).”
User ID Management Services (UMS) provides the security facility for NonStop
NET/MASTER MS. UMS is where:
User ID definition records are added to, modified, and deleted from the
database of NonStop NET/MASTER MS users
Console Extras utility lists are configured
Programs, such as Guardian utilities, that are external to but accessible from
within the NonStop NET/MASTER MS environment are defined
Section 2, “User ID Management Services (UMS),” describes UMS.
System Support Services provides several options that support network problem
determination (the Activity Log Browse facility), command entry (the Command
Entry facility), and system configuration tasks (the Display/Update SYSPARMS
facility).
System Support Services is described in detail in Section 5, “System Support
Services.”