APLMGR SCF Reference Manual

Introduction to SCF for Tandem FTAM

OSI/FTAM and OSI/APLMGR SCF Reference Manual—421943-001

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Event Management Service (EMS)

EMS is a collection of processes, tools, and interfaces that provides event-collection,

event-logging, and event-distribution facilities for Tandem subsystems. All Tandem OSI

subsystems, including OSI/APLMGR, OSI/FTAM, OSI/AS, OSI/TS, TLAM, PAM,

TCP/IP, and X25AM, report significant events in the form of event messages to the

EMS collector (primary and/or alternate collector), which logs the messages. You can

view all or selected event messages stored in an EMS collector by using applications

that retrieve and display event-message text, such as the ViewPoint operations console

facility. You can use information retrieved from EMS to recognize operational problems.

Appendix B, SCF Error Messages for the APLMGR Subsystem

, contains cause, effect,

and recovery information related to operator messages returned by the APLMGR

subsystem. Appendix C, SCF Error Messages for the FTAM Subsystem, contains cause,

effect, and recovery information related to operator messages returned by the FTAM

subsystem. For information on the EMS interface to Tandem FTAM, see the OSI/FTAM

Configuration and Management Manual. For more information on EMS, see the EMS

Manual.

Print Trace (PTrace) Utility

PTrace selects, formats, and displays trace data. You must first obtain trace data using

the SCF TRACE command to request that an APLMGR or FTAM process save trace

information to a file. Then you can use the PTrace utility to format and display the

information in the file. For information on the SCF TRACE command and PTrace, refer

to the command description for TRACE PROCESS

on page 3-116, to Section 5, PTrace

Reference for Tandem FTAM, and to the PTrace Reference Manual.

Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)

SCF is a management interface common to a variety of Tandem data communications

products, including Tandem FTAM and underlying subsystems. This manual describes

the SCF interface to Tandem FTAM.