OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual

FTAM Troubleshooting
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Inspect
The filter you use for your EMS log should pass all FTAM and APLMGR critical events,
which include those that cause an association to be lost. It should also pass security-
violation events. In addition, it should pass critical events from underlying subsystems,
including OSI/AS, OSI/TS, and X25AM, TLAM, PAM, or TCP/IP. Under some
circumstances during troubleshooting, you might want to pass additional events, such as
the file transfer complete event.
For a brief overview of the EMS log and EMS filters as they apply to Tandem FTAM,
see Section 2, FTAM Management Environment
. For detailed information, see the EMS
Manual. For descriptions of all event messages reported by the FTAM and APLMGR
subsystems (which are displayed as operator messages), see the Operator Messages
Manual. The latter manual also describes the displayed form of event messages
generated by underlying subsystems; information on the tokenized form of such
messages is provided by the management programming manuals for the underlying
subsystems.
Inspect
The Inspect interactive debugger is useful in troubleshooting FTAM application
programs that use the Tandem FTAM initiator and the procedure calls in the FTAM API.
Inspect features include interactive control of program execution with breakpoints,
distributed debugging across a network, concurrent debugging of all parts of an
application, saving and examining process states, and local system and personal
customization.
Types of problems that can be detected using Inspect are program bugs, incorrect
APLMGR names or common names, out-of-sequence procedure calls, various error
conditions, and interoperability problems.
Note. The tokenized form of the event messages for the FTAM and APLMGR subsystems is
not published for customer use. However, you can filter on tokens in the event-message header
of these messages, which contains the same tokens as for all other subsystems.