NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.26+)

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operator message
server, 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™ server. An operator message is the displayed-text form of an
Event Management Service (EMS) event message
.
option. In a UNIX or Open System Services (OSS) command, a flag and its parameters or
a flag without parameters.
orphaned process group. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, a process
group in which the parent of every member is also either a member of the process
group or a member of a different session.
orphan file. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, a file with no corresponding
inode in the PXINODE file.
orphan inode. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, an inode that appears in
the PXINODE file but has no links in the PXLINK file.
OS. See HP NonStop™ operating system.
OSC. See Online Support Center (OSC).
OSCONFIG file. In G-series release version updates (RVUs), a configuration file built during
system generation that contains only Software Problem Isolation and Fix Facility
(SPIFF) and Software Identification (SWID) tool records. In D-series and earlier RVUs,
the Configuration Utility Program (COUP) uses the $SYSTEM.SYS
nn.OSCONFIG file
to store its configuration information.
OSI. See Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).
OSIMAGE. A file built during system generation that contains the complete image of the HP
NonStop™ operating system that runs in each processor in the system.
OSM. See HP NonStop™ Open System Management (OSM) Interface.
OSM Event Viewer. OSM replacement for the TSM Event Viewer.
OSM Low-Level Link. OSM replacement for the TSM Low-Level Link.
OSM Notification Director. OSM replacement for the TSM Notification Director.
OSM Service Connection. OSM replacement for the TSM Service Application.
OSS. See Open System Services (OSS).