OSI/MHS Configuration and Management Manual

Introduction to OSI/MHS

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Summary

OSI/MHS is a 1988 X.400 implementation with MTA and message-store functions. It

has several programmatic interfaces for messaging and management applications. It

provides services over both wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks

(LANs), using X25AM, TLAM, or TCP/IP running over X25AM, or TLAM. On G06 and

later RVUs you must use PAM (port access method) to configure OSI/MHS. The

richness of the implementation, as well as the fundamental features of NonStop

systems, make OSI/MHS suitable for building large-scale messaging networks.

This section has provided an overview of the OSI/MHS subsystem and its interface to

OSI/AS, the Transfer X400 gateway, the general user gateway through GPI, and the

local operations service through P7 API. Section 2, Management Environment for

OSI/MHS, describes the management environment for OSI/MHS. These two sections

present the background you need to help you plan, install, configure, start, and

manage your OSI/MHS subsystem.