OSI/TS Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
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Purpose of This
Manual
The Tandem OSI/TS Management Programming Manual provides subsystem-specific
information about the management programming interfaces to the Tandem OSI/TS
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/TS subsystem.
This manual serves as both a reference manual and a programmer’s guide. It does the
following:
Explains the architecture of the OSI/TS subsystem and how a management
application fits into that architecture
Explains how to start the OSI/TS subsystem so that a management application
can run
Provides management programming considerations for OSI/TS
Gives a complete reference to the contents of all tokens, token and field values,
commands, responses, event messages, and error lists defined by OSI/TS
Who Should Read
This Manual?
You should read this manual if you are an experienced application programmer in
one of the following categories:
A TAL, C, or COBOL85 programmer writing applications that need to control or
monitor the OSI/TS subsystem
A TACL user writing macros or routines that control or monitor the OSI/TS
subsystem
To use this manual effectively, you should be familiar with the following subjects:
The OSI Reference Model
The OSI standards for the Network Layer and the Transport Layer
Basic Tandem system architecture
Programming for the Guardian 90 operating system
Programming in the Transaction Application Language (TAL) or in C
Reading declarations written in the Data Definition Language (DDL), as described
in the “Overview of DDL for SPI” appendix in the Distributed Systems Management
(DSM) Programming Manual
The Distributed Systems Management (DSM) facilities
The tasks necessary for managing the OSI/TS subsystem
Prerequisite reading is outlined in “What Related Publications Are Available?” later in
this Preface.