OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual

Planning, Installing, and Configuring Tandem FTAM
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Using Tandem FTAM Configuration Attributes
Using Tandem FTAM Configuration Attributes
The following subsections describe how to perform these configuration functions:
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Configuring OSI Addresses and Common Names
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Naming Processes on page 3-29
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Allocating Resources on page 3-30
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Controlling System Performance on page 3-33
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Monitoring Protocol Errors on page 3-36
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Determining Access to Tandem Responders on page 3-37
You perform these functions by using SCF ADD or ALTER commands to assign
attributes to Tandem FTAM SUBSYS, PROCESS, and PROFILE objects. APLMGR
maintains your attribute assignments in the APLMGR MIB.
The command examples in this section show the use of specific configuration attributes;
therefore, they include only the required parameters and the one or more related
attributes that are being illustrated. In an actual configuration file, you would typically
set a number of attributes in a single command, as shown in Installation, Configuration,
and Startup Instructions on page 3-41 and in the sample configuration file EXFTMUP in
Appendix A, Example FTAM Configuration Command Files.
Configuring OSI Addresses and Common Names
Each of your FTAM initiator and responder processes must have a local common name
or OSI address configured in the APLMGR MIB. For initiator processes, you specify
this addressing information when you configure the process by using the ADD
PROCESS command; for responder processes, you specify it when you configure the
VFS profile by using the ADD PROFILE command. You specify this addressing
information using either the COMNAME attribute or the PSEL, SSEL, TSEL, and
NSAP attributes.
The COMNAME attribute allows you to specify the common name that the OSI
manager process uses to find an address in the OSI manager MIB. This address is used
as the configured address of a responder or as the default address for an initiator. The
common name can consist of up to 64 alphanumeric, underscore (_), hyphen (-), and/or
circumflex (^) characters. For the common name to be used properly, it must match the
OSI application name configured for the appropriate address in the OSI manager MIB.
The following commands add a process named FTI1 that has the default common name
FTMI1A and a profile named VFS1 that has the common name APPL1A:
ADD PROCESS $AMGR.#FTAMI.FTI1, NAME $FTI1, COMNAME "FTMI1A"
ADD PROFILE $AMGR.#VFS.VFS1, COMNAME "APPL1A"
The combination of the PSEL, SSEL, TSEL, and NSAP attributes provides the OSI
address for a responder process or the default OSI address for an initiator process. When
you specify an OSI address instead of a common name, all four of these attributes are
required and must be added at the same time. In addition, the NSAP and TSEL
addresses must be registered in the OSI manager MIB by means of NSAP and TSEL
ENTRY objects.