Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)

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12 Open System Services Monitor
The Open System Services (OSS) Monitor enables you to perform operations on
filesets, OSS servers, and itself. Those operations are described in detail in Section 5,
Managing Filesets, Section 4, Managing Servers, and Section 2, Operating the OSS
Environment. This section provides:
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OSS Monitor Overview on page 12-1
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OSS Monitor SCF Command Reference Information on page 12-6
OSS Monitor Overview
The OSS Monitor is a Guardian process that configures and administers the OSS
environment. The system manager issues commands to the OSS Monitor through the
Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) OSS product module (OSS PM) to:
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Make objects available for use
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Make objects unavailable for use
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Alter the attributes of objects
The OSS Monitor uses the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) to communicate
with SCF and an internal protocol to communicate with the OSS servers.
All SCF commands pass through the Subsystem Control Point (SCP) to reach the OSS
Monitor.
The OSS PM is part of the OSS product. The installation procedure installs this SCF
product module in subvolume $SYSTEM.SYSTEM, the default location for any SCF
product module.
See the SCF Reference Manual for SCP for more information about SCP and the SCF
Reference Manual for G-Series RVUs or the SCF Reference Manual for H-Series
RVUs for information about SCF commands used by more than one SCF product
module. The OSS Monitor and its OSS PM provide the features described under OSS
Monitor Features on page 12-1.
OSS Monitor Features
The following subsections discuss these features of the OSS Monitor:
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Online Help Facility on page 12-2
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Fault Tolerance and Continuous Availability on page 12-5
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Software Requirements on page 12-5
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Localization on page 12-5
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Networking and Distributed Processing on page 12-5
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Error Handling on page 12-5
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Subsystem and Process Attributes on page 12-6
Note. HP does not support customer use of SPI tokens for programmatic control of the OSS
Monitor. OSS Monitor tokens are not documented.