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

Using the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Help Facility
Getting Started With NonStop NET/MASTER MS
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Using the NonStop
NET/MASTER MS Help
Facility
NonStop NET/MASTER MS provides an extensive help facility. By default, the F1
(PF01) function key is the HELP function key, which is used to access online help.
Three types of help are available:
Help for a service, facility, or panel
Help for a message
Help for a command
Help for a Service, Facility,
or Panel
To display help text describing the function of a particular service, facility, or panel,
press the HELP function key from a panel that indicates help information is available.
For example, if you press the HELP function key from the Edit Services Selection List
panel, several pages of information describing the Edit Services facility are displayed.
You can scroll forward and backward through the help panels by pressing the F8
(PF08) and F7 (PF07) function keys, respectively. To exit from the help facility, press
the F3 (PF03) function key.
See later sections in this manual, and refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER MS System
Management Guide, for more information about services, facilities, and panels.
Help for a Message NonStop NET/MASTER MS displays many messages, which report events, indicate
the results of a command, and so on. There are two methods you can use to obtain
online help about a message displayed on the screen. The following table displays the
locations from which you can use each method:
Method OCS Command Entry Activity Log
1 Yes Yes Yes
2 Yes Yes No
Method 1 is to position the cursor on a line on which the message is displayed (next to
the message number) and press the HELP function key. Method 2 is to type the
message number in the OCS command input line or the Command Entry facility
COMMAND field, and to press the HELP function key.
The panel that appears depends on the message about which you are obtaining help.
If the message begins with NNM, it is a NonStop NET/MASTER MS message. Help
information about the message is in the NonStop NET/MASTER MS message help
database (and also in the NonStop NET/MASTER Messages Manual).
If NonStop NET/MASTER MS recognizes a message beginning with NNM, the
Browse NonStop NET/MASTER Messages panel appears with detailed help
information for the message: otherwise, NonStop NET/MASTER MS displays help for
the next sequential message.