OSI/MHS Management Programming Manual

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About This Manual
The OSI/MHS Management Programming Manual provides subsystem-specific
information about the management programming interfaces to the Compaq OSI/MHS
subsystem. These interfaces are based on the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI)
and the Event Management Service (EMS). They allow applications to send commands
to, and monitor events reported by, the OSI/MHS subsystem.
This manual serves as both a reference manual and a programmer’s guide. It does the
following:
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Explains the architecture of the OSI/MHS subsystem and how a management
application fits into that architecture
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Explains how to communicate with the OSI/MHS processes
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Provides management programming considerations for OSI/MHS
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Gives a complete reference to the contents of all tokens, token and field values,
commands, responses, event messages, and error lists defined by OSI/MHS
The following pages may help you if you are not sure which of the OSI/MHS manuals
contains the information you need.
Who Should Read This Manual?
You should read this manual if you are an experienced application programmer in one of
the following categories:
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A Transaction Application Language (TAL), C, or COBOL85 programmer writing
applications that need to control or monitor the OSI/MHS subsystem
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A TACL user writing macros or routines that control or monitor the OSI/MHS
subsystem
To use this manual effectively, you should be familiar with the following subjects:
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The OSI Reference Model
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The X.400 standards
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Basic Compaq system architecture
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Programming for the Compaq NonStop operating system
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Programming using TAL, TACL, C, or COBOL
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Reading declarations written in the Data Definition Language (DDL), as described
in the “Overview of DDL for SPI” appendix in the SPI Programming Manual
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The Distributed Systems Management (DSM) facilities
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The tasks necessary for managing the OSI/MHS subsystem as described in the
OSI/AS Management Programming Manual