SNAX/APC Management Programming Manual

About This Manual
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Audience and Purpose This manual serves as both a user's guide and a reference manual for the development
of Distributed Systems Management (DSM) applications that communicate with the
SNAX/APC subsystem. This manual is for programmers writing network
management applications. Support is provided for the C, TAL, COBOL85, Pascal, and
TACL programming languages.
This manual provides subsystem–specific programming information about the
network management interface to the SNAX Advanced Program Communications
(SNAX/APC) subsystem. This interface is based on the Subsystem Programmatic
Interface (SPI) and the Event Management Service (EMS).
Organization of
This Manual
This management programming manual has the following sections:
Section 1, "Introduction to SNAX/APC," introduces SNAX/APC and how to write a
management program to control it, and describes the use of the programmatic
interface provided by Distributed Systems Management (DSM).
Section 2, "Communicating With the SNAX/APC Process," describes the SNAX/APC
process and issues involved in communicating with it.
Section 3, "Elements of SPI Messages and SNAX/APC," describes the portions of SPI
messages that are specific to SNAX/APC.
Section 4, "Common Definitions," describes the definitions used in the DSM interfaces
to SNAX/APC, together with methods for using the definitions.
Section 5, "Commands and Responses," defines the syntax for all commands and
responses supported by SNAX/APC.
Section 6, "Event Management," describes the event-message tokens and their values,
represented in the Data Definition Language (DDL).
Appendix A, "Error Numbers and Error Lists," presents all error numbers displayed
by SNAX/APC and describes their associated error lists.
Appendix B, "Programming Example," presents a simple, yet practical, management
programming example (written in TAL).
A glossary and index follow the appendixes.