NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

1 Introduction to Managing
NonStop NET/MASTER MS
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This section introduces NonStop NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) to those
who will manage its configuration and security. This introduction takes the form of a
survey of key features:
Comprehensive operations console
Cooperative management of heterogeneous networks
Management application development environment
Automated performance of operations tasks
Flexible security administration
Continuous availability
Simplified configuration management
This section does not contain a high-level overview of everything you need to know
about NonStop NET/MASTER MS; its scope is restricted to the key features of interest
to those responsible for the configuration and security of NonStop NET/MASTER MS.
Comprehensive
Operations Console
NonStop NET/MASTER MS consolidates and integrates many of the capabilities
required to monitor and control resources on local and remote Tandem nodes.
Integrated Event
Monitoring
A single NonStop NET/MASTER MS system receives and processes many kinds of
event messages. The messages can originate from both the local node and remote
nodes to which the local node is linked in a network. Messages include, but are not
limited to, the following:
Event Management Service (EMS) event messages generated by subsystems on
the local Tandem node
EMS messages from remote Tandem nodes
Primary Program Operator (PPO) messages from remote IBM nodes
Communications network management (CNM) messages from downstream SNA
devices, such as terminals
NonStop NET/MASTER MS monitoring messages
NonStop NET/MASTER MS commands enable you to manage the EMS consumer
distributor from which messages are received. Moreover, you can change the
distributor filters online without losing any messages.
Using the Operator Control Services (OCS) window, a user can receive many kinds of
event messages at a single screen.
Figure 1-1 illustrates the flow of event messages from several sources to a single user’s
OCS window.