TCP/IP Management Programming Manual

HP NonStop TCP/IP Management Programming Manual—529636-001
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About This Manual
The HP NonStop TCP/IP subsystem provides a file-system interface to the TCP, User
Datagram Protocol (UDP), and IP layers of the TCP/IP process structure. This manual
provides subsystem-specific information for application programmers using the
management-programming interfaces to manage the NonStop TCP/IP subsystem. The
management-programming interfaces are based on the Subsystem Programmatic
Interface (SPI) of Distributed Systems Management (DSM).
Audience
This manual describes the control-and-inquiry interface and the Event Management
Service (EMS) interface and serves as a reference manual for the development of
management applications. This manual is intended for application programmers in one
of these categories:
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Transaction Application Language (TAL) and C programmers who are writing
management applications that communicate with the TCP/IP subsystem
•
COBOL programmers using ENTER TAL, who are writing management
applications that communicate with the TCP/IP subsystem
•
HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) users who are writing macros
and routines to perform management functions on the TCP/IP subsystem
Note that, within this manual, whenever references are made to the TCP/IP
subsystem, process, or commands, the reference is to the NonStop TCP/IP product.
Organization of This Manual
Section Description (page 1 of 2)
Section 1,
Introduction
Introduces the TCP/IP subsystem and the objects controlled by the
subsystem. It also describes the required management functions,
the relationship of this subsystem to the ServerNet LAN Systems
Access (SLSA) and X.25 Access Method (X25AM) subsystems, and
the architecture of the TCP/IP subsystem.
Section 2,
Management
Programming
Describes the purpose of management programming and how
applications fit into the DSM architecture. It also contains tables of
TCP/IP programmatic commands and a comparison of
programmatic and operator commands.
Section 3, Elements
of SPI Messages
Describes the elements of SPI messages. It includes discussions of
definition files, naming guidelines, and the various types of tokens
that make up commands, responses, and event messages.