OSI/TS Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
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What Related
Publications Are
Available?
The other publications related to this manual fall into three categories: standards
documents, with which you should first be familiar; prerequisite manuals, which you
should read before you read this manual; and other Tandem OSI manuals.
OSI Standards Documents To understand and use this manual, you should be familiar with the standards
documents, from the following list, that pertain to the OSI layers and service elements
you are using:
ISO 7498 (OSI Reference Model)
ISO 8072 (Transport Layer service)
ISO 8073 (Transport Layer protocol)
ISO 8473 (Internet Protocol, or IP)
ISO 9542 (End System to Intermediate System Routing Exchange Protocol, or ES-
IS)
CCITT X.25 Packet-Switched Network Protocol
Prerequisite Manuals Assuming you are a programmer writing applications that control or monitor the
OSI/TS subsystem, the diagram on the following page shows the other Tandem
manuals that you should read for background before you read this manual, and those
to which you may need to refer while using this manual. The flowchart, read from the
top down, indicates the order in which you should read the manuals. Manuals shown
leading to this manual with a horizontal line are corequisites rather than prerequisites.