OSI/AS Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
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What’s in This
Manual?
Sections 1 through 3 of this manual give background information and programming
considerations, including the following:
The architecture of the OSI/AS subsystem and how a management application fits
into it (Section 1)
The types of objects managed by OSI/AS and the operations necessary to manage
these objects (Section 1)
The kinds of events reported by OSI/AS (Section 1)
How to set up communications with the OSI/AS subsystem, including how to
start the OSI manager process either interactively or programmatically (Section 2)
Programming considerations for management applications that manage OSI/AS
(Section 3)
Sections 4 through 6 provide reference information, as follows:
Subsystem-specific information about tokens, token values, and related definitions
defined by other sources (such as SPI and EMS) and used by the DSM interfaces to
OSI/AS (Section 4)
Descriptions of tokens, token values, and related definitions defined by OSI/AS
(Section 4)
Detailed descriptions of all programmatic commands that can be directed to the
OSI/AS subsystem and their corresponding responses from OSI/AS (Section 5)
Detailed descriptions of all event messages generated by OSI/AS (Section 6)
Appendix A provides detailed descriptions of all errors defined by OSI/AS and their
corresponding error lists. Appendix B gives reference tables for all OSI/AS token
codes and token maps. Appendix C provides examples of a management application
that directs commands to OSI/AS, EMS filters that filter OSI/AS event messages, and
an application that retrieves OSI/AS event messages. Appendix D contains a table
showing token names that were changed for this software release. The old names
maintain backward compatibility.
At the end of this manual, immediately preceding the Index, are an Abbreviations list
and a Glossary. The Abbreviations list gives expansions of abbreviations, and the
Glossary defines relevant OSI terms and Tandem terms. Both cover terms used in this
manual and in the other manuals describing OSI/AS and OSI/TS.