NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.25+)

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Open System Services (OSS) environment
users of the OSS environment usually use the OSS shell for their command interpreter.
Synonymous with
Open System Services (OSS) environment. Contrast with Guardian.
Open System Services (OSS) environment. The HP NonStop™ Kernel Open System
Services (OSS) application program interface (API), tools, and utilities.
Open System Services (OSS) Monitor. A Guardian utility that accepts commands affecting
OSS objects through an interactive Guardian interface named the Subsystem Control
Facility (SCF).
Open System Services (OSS) signal. A signal model defined in the POSIX.1 specification
and available to TNS processes and TNS/R native processes in the OSS environment.
OSS signals can be sent between processes.
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). A seven-layer network architecture model defined
by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The two lowest layers deal
with the physical connections and their protocols. The five upper layers deal with
network services, such as network file transfers and access to remote databases.
Open Systems Interconnection Layer 2. The data-link control level of the Open Systems
Interconnection (OSI) model, composed of asynchronous or minimal line control
protocols, byte-oriented or character-oriented protocols, and bit-synchronous or
bit-oriented protocols. Data link protocols can be defined in terms of method of access
of data, link relationship of stations, error detection scheme, error recovery, message
formatting, logical half-duplex or full-duplex operation, code, and machine
transparency.
operating system image. See OSIMAGE.
operational environment. The conditions under which your system performs. These
conditions include the devices and communications lines that are made active and the
system and application processes that are started at system startup.
operator. (1) A symbol, such as an arithmetic or conditional operator, that performs a
specific operation on operands. (2) In Network Control Language (NCL), a lexical
element used for working on terms in expressions. The five types of operators are
parenthetical, arithmetic, Boolean, relational, and string. (3) For an HP NonStop™
system, the person or program responsible for day-to-day monitoring and maintenance
tasks associated with the HP NonStop operating system and the hardware of a
NonStop node. The operator issues commands to subsystems; retrieves, examines,
and responds to event messages; or does any combination of those things. See also
local operator
. Contrast with administrator. (4) For a UNIX system, any interactive user
of that system.
operator message. A message, intended for an operator, that describes a significant event
on an HP NonStop™ S-series system. An operator message is the displayed-text form
of an Event Management Service (EMS) event message
.