ViewPoint Manual

Installation, Configuration, and Startup
ViewPoint Manual—426801-001
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Default Configuration Files
The Event Management Service (EMS) forwarding distributor processes are not started
automatically. You can include them in the ViewPoint NonStop™ TS/MP application.
If included, these processes are started by the viewpt:startup routine.
The processes of the Distributed Name Service (DNS) are not started automatically by
when you start up ViewPoint. These processes, if applicable to your system, should be
started independently.
VIEWPT:STARTUP detects and issues error messages for the following situations:
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The ViewPoint application is already running.
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ViewPoint has not been installed.
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The user does not have access authority to the startup definition files.
Default Configuration Files
The configuration of primary-events and alternate-events displays is kept in an event
configuration file. Several such files can exist. ViewPoint provides a default
configuration file, EVNTDFLT, that always exists on the ViewPoint data subvolume.
EVNTDFLT is created during ViewPoint installation, if it does not already exist at
installation time. You can create your own default event configuration file,
ZZVPEVNT, on your default logon subvolume. If ZZVPEVNT exists, ViewPoint uses
it as the default event configuration file instead of EVNTDFLT.
Status display configuration is kept in a status configuration file. Again, several such
files can exist. By default, the file is STATDFLT, which always exists on the ViewPoint
data subvolume. STATDFLT is created during ViewPoint installation, if it does not
already exist at installation time. You can create your own default status configuration
file, ZZVPSTAT, on your default logon subvolume. If ZZVPSTAT exists, ViewPoint
uses it as the default status configuration file instead of STATDFLT.
When ViewPoint runs without allowing access to TACL, any ZZVPEVNT or
ZZVPSTAT file can exist on the PATHMON user ID default logon subvolume.
Changing ViewPoint Configuration
There are two means available for changing your ViewPoint configuration:
Install/CONFIGURE/ and PATHDEFS (the NonStop™ TS/MP configuration file). Note
that when using Install/CONFIGURE/ to configure ViewPoint, you can only change
those parameters that are modifiable through Install. Thus, if you want to modify other
parameters, you must edit the PATHDEFS file.
PATHDEFS defines the ViewPoint configuration. To reconfigure your ViewPoint
application, change this file. Some typical situations in which you must reconfigure
ViewPoint are described below. (Refer to Appendix A, Server Assigns and Parameters
for examples of these situations.)
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Changing existing configuration attributes such as the primary or backup CPU for
your application.
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Changing server attributes by adding new server assigns or parameters or by
changing existing ones.