PAM Management Programming Manual

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Commands and Responses
This section describes the syntax and semantics for all commands and responses in the
management programming interface to the PAM subsystem. These commands allow a
PAM management application program to perform the following functions:
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Add and delete certain objects
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Start and stop the operation of some objects
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Determine or change attribute values of certain objects
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Obtain statistical and status information for certain objects
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Trace the operation of some objects
In this section, the names and structures of commands, object types, and all tokens and
their values are represented in Data Definition Language (DDL). For an explanation of
DDL, refer to the SPI Programming Manual.
Commands by Object Type
Table 5-1 lists the PAM programmatic commands. The first column of the table
indicates whether or not each command is a sensitive command—one that can change
the state or configuration of objects, start or stop tracing, or change the values of
statistics counters, and that can be issued only by a restricted set of users. The remaining
columns indicate which commands accept which object types.
Table 5-1. PAM Programmatic Commands and Object Types (page 1 of 2)
Object Type
Programmatic
Command
Sensitive
Command LINE MSAP PORT PROCESS SESSION
ABORT Yes X X X X X
ADD Yes X
ALTER Yes X X
DELETE Yes X
GETVERSION No X X
INFO No X X X
LISTOBJECTS No X X X
LISTOPENS No X
START Yes X X X
STATISTICS No X X X
STATISTICS, RESET Yes X X X
STATUS No X X X X