RDF System Management Manual

HP NonStop RDF System Management Manual—524388-003
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4 Operating and Monitoring RDF
To operate and monitor RDF, you enter commands through two online utilities: the
RDFCOM and RDFSCAN interactive command interpreters. Through these utilities,
you initiate communication with RDF, request various RDF operations or information
displays, and terminate communication with the subsystem. This section, which is
intended for system operators, explains how to use these utilities by focusing on the
following topics:
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Running RDFCOM, including:
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Command syntax for starting an RDFCOM session
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Running RDFCOM interactively, noninteractively, and through a command file
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Using RDFCOM commands
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Requesting online help for RDFCOM commands
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Running RDFSCAN
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Command syntax for starting an RDFSCAN session
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Using RDFSCAN
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Using RDFSCAN commands
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Requesting online help for RDFSCAN commands
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Performing routine operational tasks
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Displaying configuration parameters and operating statistics with RDFCOM
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Changing configuration parameters with RDFCOM
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Reading (monitoring) EMS messages with RDFSCAN
The syntax and functional descriptions of all RDFCOM and RDFSCAN commands
appear in sections 8 and 9, respectively.
For information about responding to error messages, handling failures, and stopping
and restarting RDF, see Section 5, Managing RDF. For details about the messages
themselves, see Appendix C, Messages.
Running RDFCOM
RDFCOM is an interactive command interpreter through which you begin a session
and enter requests to manage, operate, and control RDF. RDFCOM runs under the
Guardian user interface (normally the TACL command interpreter) to the HP NonStop
Kernel operating system. To initiate communication with RDFCOM, enter the keyword
RDFCOM at the current TACL prompt. This begins an RDFCOM session that lets you
enter RDFCOM commands interactively, noninteractively, or through a command file,
as explained shortly.