Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.30+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

13 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 “Managing Filesets” (page 140),
“Managing Servers” (page 90), and “Operating the OSS Environment” (page 46). This chapter
provides:
• “OSS Monitor Overview” (page 251)
• “OSS Monitor SCF Command Reference Information” (page 255)
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:
• Make objects available for use
• Make objects unavailable for use
• 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.
NOTE: HP does not support customer use of SPI tokens for programmatic control of the OSS
Monitor. OSS Monitor tokens are not documented.
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 J and 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” (page 251).
OSS Monitor Features
The following subsections discuss these features of the OSS Monitor:
• “Online Help Facility” (page 251)
• “Fault Tolerance and Continuous Availability” (page 254)
• “Software Requirements” (page 255)
• “Localization” (page 255)
• “Networking and Distributed Processing” (page 255)
• “Error Handling” (page 255)
• “Subsystem and Process Attributes” (page 255)
Online Help Facility
The OSS PM includes a context-sensitive online help facility similar to that provided in other SCF
product modules. This help facility describes:
• The syntax and semantics of the OSS Monitor SCF commands, objects, and object states
• Each of the error messages returned by the OSS Monitor
OSS Monitor Overview 251