HP HP-UX SNAplus2, Administration Manual

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Managing SNAplus2 from NetView
Using UCF
Specify spname, which is the name of your service
point as defined at NetView. The host NetView
personnel can give you this information.
appl
=unix
Instruct NetView to send the command to the UCF
daemon program on the SNAplus2 computer associated
with the service point name spname.
HP-UX_command
Supply the HP-UX operating system command. This
command is entered as you would enter it on the
HP-UX command line, except for the escape characters
to indicate uppercase letters or square bracket
characters (as described in “Overview of RCF
Command Syntax”).
The escape characters you would normally use on the
HP-UX command line, to prevent the HP-UX shell from
interpreting special characters, are not required with
UCF. For example, do not use escape characters with
strings containing the characters
*
or
$
, as you would
when entering them on the HP-UX command line.
Permitted Commands
The UCF is designed for use with commands that complete (whether or
not any output is produced) without any further interaction from the
user. For example, you can issue the command
cat
filename, which
completes after displaying the contents of filename, or
mv
filename1
filename2, which completes with no output unless an error occurs.
Output generated by a UCF command is returned to UCF when the
HP-UX operating system command completes. This leads to the
following restrictions:
• Any output generated after the command completes is not returned to
UCF. For example, if you issue a command followed by
&
to run it in
the background, UCF receives the operating system message giving
the process ID of the background command, but does not receive any
subsequent output that is generated. Similarly, you can use UCF to
start a daemon process, but you cannot see any output generated by
the process.