Safeguard Management Programming Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Management Programming for the Safeguard

Subsystem

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Event Messages

In addition to sending commands and receiving responses, a management application

can obtain notification of events that occur in the Safeguard subsystem. This

notification is in the form of event messages issued by the Safeguard subsystem. An

event message describes an event such as a hardware or software error or the

completion of an operation. An application can monitor these event messages to

handle unexpected situations or to keep track of the current status of the system and

the network.

Section 8, Event Management describes the event messages that the Safeguard

subsystem can be issue. For more information about obtaining event messages, see

the EMS Manual.

Commands That a Management Application

Can Issue

Table 2-1 lists and briefly describes the commands that a management application can

send to the Safeguard subsystem. For more information, see Section 7, Commands.

Table 2-1. Safeguard Programmatic Commands

Command Action

ACTIVATE Thaws an object

ADD Defines an object to the subsystem

ALTER Changes the values of an object's attributes

DELETE Removes an object definition from the subsystem

GETVERSION Returns an object's version information

INFO Returns an object's current attribute values

LISTOBJECTS Returns the object name and object type of designated objects

LISTOPENS Returns the process IDs of an object's openers

NEXTFILE Closes the active audit file and opens the next in sequence

RELEASE Marks the specified audit files in the active audit trail as reusable

START Starts a terminal

STATUS Returns the current status of an object

STOP Stops the operation of an object

SUSPEND Freezes an object