SPI Common Extensions Manual

Introduction to SPI Extensions

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Distributed Management

An application can simultaneously manage multiple subsystems and might do so by

routing commands through more than one intermediate process.

Figure 1-3 shows a single management application sending commands to several

subsystems through two SCP processes. An application can start its own SCP process

or use one that is already running.

A management application can manage subsystems on remote nodes either directly or

through an intermediate process such as SCP.

Every message includes the name of the target subsystem, which can be fully qualified

to include a remote system name. See Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-3. The Management Application Environment With SCP