NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

6 Managing Access to External
Utilities and Applications
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When logged on to NonStop NET/MASTER Management Services (MS), a user with a
sufficient command authority level can interactively use Guardian programs, also
known as external utilities and applications. A user can also write NCL procedures
that use conversational-mode utilities.
Note For simplicity, both external utilities and applications are referred to as external utilities in this section.
Features known collectively as Utility Maintenance Services provide for such access to
external utilities without custom programming. You use the features to describe
external utilities to NonStop NET/MASTER MS and secure access to the utilities.
Security is provided by assigning a command authority level required to start a
session with the utility. You can also assign a minimum command authority level
required to use each command of an external conversational-mode utility.
This section describes and explains how you use Utility Maintenance Services to
provide secure access to external utilities. It comprises four parts.
The first part surveys the ways in which users can access external utilities. It
establishes a conceptual context that enables you to understand the significance of the
procedures described throughout this section.
The second part introduces Utility Maintenance Services commands and function
keys.
The third part explains the procedures for defining external utilities to NonStop
NET/MASTER MS. You define a utility by creating a record that describes the utility
to NonStop NET/MASTER MS. The third part of this section also provides
instructions for performing these tasks:
Configuring utility prompt recognition
Configuring utilities accessed with the OPSYS command
Configuring utilities accessed with the PROGRUN command
The fourth part of this section explains the procedures for specifying the minimum
command authority level required to use an external utility and, in the case of
conversational-mode utilities, members of the utility’s command set. Security
information is stored in a command set definition record. Accordingly, the fourth part
explains the procedures for adding and maintaining command set definition records.
Note You can perform the operations described in this section only if you have access to Utility Maintenance
Services. See Section 4, “Managing User Access and Privileges,” for an explanation of the procedure by
which you can get access to Utility Maintenance Services.