HP HP-UX SNAplus2, Administration Manual

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Chapter 2 101
Introduction to SNAplus2
SNAplus2 Administration
The other SNAplus2 administration tools, including command-line
configuration, and NOF application programs, provide access to a wider
range of configuration parameters and options than those shown in the
Motif administration program. In most cases, however, you can perform
all needed configuration from the Motif administration program, because
it exposes the key fields you need to configure and hides the fields that
most users should not modify. The default values supplied by
command-line configuration may differ from those supplied by the Motif
administration program, because the Motif program can choose values
more intelligently based on the context of the configuration task you are
performing.
If you need to use these additional functions, you can still use the Motif
administration program to set up the basic configuration, and use the
other administration tools to specify the additional functions. When you
later use the Motif administration program to manage the modified
configuration, the program retains the changes you made using the other
tools, although the additional functions you have configured are not
displayed in the Motif program.
Command-Line Administration Program
The command-line administration program,
snapadmin
, enables you to
issue commands to manage individual SNAplus2 resources. You can use
snapadmin
either directly from the HP-UX command prompt or from
within a shell script.
Commands can be issued to a specific SNAplus2 node to manage the
node's resources, to the SNA network data file to manage master and
backup servers, or to the domain configuration file to manage domain
resources.
Some commands can be issued from SNAplus2 clients, provided the
command includes the
-n
option to specify a server name. Such a
command has the same effect as if it were issued at the named server.
You can get help for command-line administration by using any of the
following commands:
•
snapadmin -h
provides basic help for command-line administration
and usage information for command-line help.
•
snapadmin -h -d
provides a list of commands that can be supplied
to the
snapadmin
program.
•
snapadmin -h
commandprovides help for the named command.