X25AM Management Programming Manual

X25AM Management Programming Manual—528037-001

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Management Programming for the

X25AM Subsystem

As explained in Section 1, Introduction, there are several different interfaces, both

interactive and programmatic, to the X25AM subsystem. In some situations, the

programmatic interfaces would be preferred over the interactive interfaces for the

following reasons:

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It is efficient to transfer as many routine network-management tasks as possible to

programs running on the computer network itself, freeing operators and other

network-management personnel to do the work that requires judgment and

creativity.

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Information obtained through the programmatic interfaces can be used directly by

an application to control its actions, produce reports, and so forth.

This section contain these topics:

An application that uses the control-and-inquiry and event-management interfaces can

perform tasks that once required the use of two or three interactive interfaces, and

such an application can also communicate with multiple subsystems. In addition, the

capability to write your own applications allows you to tailor them to the needs and

configuration of your network.

You could, for example, write an application that uses the control-and-inquiry interface

to check the number of errors occurring on all the X25AM lines and stop lines that have

too many errors. An application could monitor the events occurring in the X25AM

subsystem and react to the notification that a line is going down by starting another line

to handle the traffic.

Your applications can communicate with other subsystems as well as with the X25AM

subsystem. For example, you could write an application that controls the PATHWAY

subsystem and the X25AM subdevices (the "PATHWAY terminals") used by PATHWAY.

This application could monitor events from both the PATHWAY subsystem and the

X25AM subsystem.

Topic Page

How Applications Fit into the Architecture

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Commands an Application Can Issue 2-2

Event Messages 2-6

Prerequisite Manuals 2-6