OSI/MHS Orientation Guide

Building Your Message Handling System
OSI/MHS Orientation Guide—424829-001
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Where to Look
Where to Look
Compaq provides a set of manuals and courses to help you learn about Distributed
Systems Management and the task of management programming. In addition to those
manuals and educational materials, you are likely to need information of the following
types:
•
Policy statements from your own company regarding its billing policies and
practices
•
Manuals for the C and possibly TAL programming languages, and NonStop
programming manuals
If you are interested in writing other types of management applications, you will also
need the management programming manuals for other products you use, such as the
other OSI products and the Transaction Monitoring Facility. (Management
programming manuals are easy to identify: almost all of them have the words
“Management Programming” in their titles.)
Manuals and Media Guide
Table 1-15 includes Compaq manuals and educational media that help you develop
accounting and billing applications for OSI/MHS. Items are listed in one possible
reading order, but you will certainly find yourself moving back and forth among the
manuals as you work.
In the table, represents a manual, represents a videotape, represents a
workbook, represents a lecture course, and represents information available to
Compaq technical support personnel through the Courier application.
Table 1-15. Manuals and Media for Writing Accounting and Billing Applications
Title
Subject
Area Contents
Introduction to Distributed Sys-
tems Management
Op. Sys. Background on DSM architecture and
tools
Distributed Systems Manage-
ment (DSM) Programming
Manual
Op. Sys. How to use the Subsystem Programmatic
Interface
Distributed Systems Manage-
ment Programming lecture/lab
Op. Sys. How to write management applications
EMS Manual Op. Sys. EMS concepts and interfaces
Data Definition Language
(DDL) Ref Manual
Database Syntax and use of DDL
SPI Common Extensions Man-
ual
COMM Information about management program-
ming for communications products
SCF Reference Manual for
OSI/MHS
MHS How to specify desired accounting events
OSI/MHS Management Programming
Manual
MHS How to write management applications
for OSI/MHS, including definitions of all
OSI/MHS event messages