OSI/FTAM Programming Guide

HP NonStop OSI/FTAM Programming Guide—528612-001
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6 FTAM Application Management
HP provides several tools for setting up and managing a system including NonStop
FTAM and related products. Complete details for configuring and managing NonStop
initiator processes are found in the OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual.
This manual highlights aspects of FTAM configuration and management that are
especially important to FTAM application designers and programmers.
For example, this section describes:
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How to define the number and characteristics of FTAM initiators, how to set
transport PDU sizes (TPDU), and how to calculate FTAM PDU (FPDU) sizes
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How the FTAM configuration can provide some fault tolerance
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How to use debugging and troubleshooting tools such as the NonStop symbolic
debugger (Inspect), trace facilities, and Event Management Service
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How to monitor association status
Configuration and Capacity
The NonStop FTAM environment, including the NonStop FTAM and APLMGR
subsystems and underlying OSI software, must be set up and running on the local
system before you can run your application. You use the NonStop Subsystem Control
Facility (SCF) to define and manage your FTAM environment.
Configuration
Using SCF, you can define the following configurable aspects of the NonStop FTAM
initiator process:
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CPUs on which the primary and backup FTAM initiator processes run.
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Guardian process priority.
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Location of the swap file.
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Number of protocol errors that the initiator can tolerate before it reports an EMS
event (see the discussion of EMS in the Troubleshooting and Tuning on page 6-4).
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Fully qualified name of the initiator process.
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Fully qualified name of the initiator code file.
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Maximum number of parallel associations to be supported within the process at
one time. You can configure up to 32 associations for one initiator process.
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Default OSI address or common name for the initiator.
For details on these topics, refer to the OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management
Manual.