PAM Management Programming Manual

Introduction
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The PAM Subsystem’s Role Within the System
The PAM Subsystem’s Role Within the System
The PAM subsystem consists only of software processes and interfaces and uses the
services provided by the SLSA subsystem to access the Ethernet and token-ring LANs
connected to the Himalaya S-series server. Figure 1-1
shows the components of PAM
and its relationship to other data-communication subsystems. The components and
related subsystems are described after Figure 1-1.
PAM Components
The components of the PAM subsystem (shown in Figure 1-1) are listed below; (for
more detailed descriptions of the components either click on the highlighted term or go
to the page indicated).
Figure 1-1. PAM Components
E4SA
Processor
SCF
TRSA
MFIOB
PAM
QIO
Shared
Memory
Segment
Application
Interface
File-System
Interface
PAM Applications
PAM Mgr
LLC2 Applications
SNAX over
Token Ring
001CDT .CDD
Message
System
Interface
Management
Interface
SLSA
LIF
LIF
LIF
FESA
PAM Clients