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

Introduction to NonStop TS/MP System
Management
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PATHCOM Interactive Interface
repetitive your system management tasks, the more advantageous it is to use a
management programming interface.
Your choice might also depend on the availability of resources to develop a
management application, which is a sophisticated programming assignment, or on the
availability of other products, such as NonStop NET/MASTER. (NonStop
NET/MASTER belongs to the set of HP management products known collectively as
Distributed Systems Management (DSM), which is described in Distributed Systems
Management on page 1-19.)
PATHCOM Interactive Interface
PATHCOM provides commands for defining and managing a PATHMON environment.
PATHCOM also provides online help and error messages.
PATHCOM functions, usage, and command syntax are given in Section 8, Overview of
PATHCOM through Section 12, SERVER Commands of this manual. A summary of
PATHCOM command syntax appears in Appendix A, Syntax Summary.
Using PATHCOM, which consists of sets of object-related commands, you can
interactively define and manage all PATHMON-controlled objects. PATHCOM
executes some of these object-related commands; other commands are processed by
the PATHMON process and might involve one or more TCP or LINKMON processes in
the execution. For example:
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You define PATHMON-controlled object configurations, start and stop objects, and
obtain status information about objects by entering commands that PATHCOM
passes directly to the PATHMON process.
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You request server-class performance statistics by issuing a STATS SERVER
command. PATHCOM passes the request directly to the PATHMON process,
which passes the request to the link managers, such as the TCPs and LINKMON
processes. The link managers execute the command by gathering and returning
statistical information about their links to the specified server class.
PATHCOM allows you to enter commands interactively through a terminal or from a
command file or TACL script. For more information about using command files and
TACL scripts, see Section 2, Starting and Stopping a PATHMON Environment.
Management Programming Interface
A management programming interface is a token-oriented interface based on the
Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI) and the Event Management Service (EMS)—
part of HP’s Distributed System Management (DSM) product. (See Distributed
Systems Management on page 1-19.)
The management programming interface acts as the interface between a management
application process—a requester that you write—and the PATHMON process, which
acts as the server.