SNAX Creator-2 Configuration and Control Manual

Object Names and Object States
Objects for SNAX Creator-2
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Object Names and
Object States
This subsection provides an introduction to the naming conventions for objects and
the concept of object states.
Object Names All objects in the SNAX Creator-2 subsystem, except null objects, have an object name.
An object name uniquely identifies an object of a given type within the subsystem.
Object names are not case-sensitive: either uppercase or lowercase alphabetic
characters can be used.
Manager Name
SCF requires designation of a manager name, indicating the SNAX Creator-2
subsystem through which to operate.
The object name is not qualified by a manager name in the configuration database or
in SCF displays.
manager-name is the fully-qualified process name of a SNAX Creator-2 subsystem. It
has the following syntax:
[\ node .]$ crename
\ node
is a node name commencing with a backslash followed by one alphabetic character
and up to six alphanumeric characters.
It can be omitted from SCF commands if the SNAX Creator-2 subsystem is on the
same node as the SCF where commands are entered. If no \ node is supplied, the
default is the node of the SCF operator, which is the system setting.
$ crename
is a unique name commencing with a dollar sign followed by one alphabetic
character and and up to four alphanumeric characters. It is defined by the RUN
CREOBJ command.
Wild-Card Designators
All SNAX Creator-2 commands except ADD accept a wild-card designator (* or ?) in
the object name specified. A wild-card designator allows several objects of the same
type to be indicated in a command.
The asterisk wild-card designator (*) globally designates zero or more characters. For
example, an INFO command issued against the APPL object type with * indicated as
the object name returns information about all APPL objects. If the name used was A*,
information would be returned for all APPL objects whose names begin with A.
A question mark wild-card designator (?) replaces a single character. For example, an
INFO command issued against the APPL object type with ???W??? indicated as the