TS/MP Management Programming Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)

NonStop TS/MP Management Programming Manual—540082-001
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SPI Programming Considerations
After your subsystem and EMS processes are running and your management
application has established communication with the Pathway subsystem, the main
business of your management application is to format and send commands, decode
responses and act on the results, and interpret event messages and act on their
information.
This section provides summary information about SPI programming and discusses SPI
programming considerations specific to the Pathway subsystem. Topics included are:
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Definition files
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Message elements for the Pathway subsystem
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Using SPI to build and send commands
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Receiving and decoding response messages
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Error handling
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Security
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Retrieving and decoding event messages
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Templ ates
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Naming guidelines for applications
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Programming considerations for specific object types
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Writing C programs
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Command presentation
For a complete list of all token codes and token maps specific to the Pathway
subsystem, see the ZPWYDDL file.