Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE manual Purpose of this Manual, Intended Audience, Structure of Document

Preface

Purpose of this Manual

This manual describes how to configure, manage and monitor the operation of Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) using the RTR Command Line Interface (CLI).

Intended Audience

The System Manager's Manual is intended for persons who perform system management functions to configure, test, monitor and maintain RTR applications.

The reader is assumed to be familiar with their operating system, but not necessarily experienced with RTR operations.

New users of RTR are encouraged to read the first chapters of the Application Programmer's Reference Manual for a overall description of RTR.

Structure of Document

The manual contains the following chapters and appendices:

•Chapter 1 is an introduction to the RTR Command Line Interface (CLI) and tells you how to use local and remote commands and command procedures.

•Chapter 2 explains how to start and configure RTR.

•Chapter 3 describes RTR's Partition Management.

•Chapter 4 gives an overview of RTR's Transaction Management tools.

•Chapter 5 describes how the RTR monitor is used to continuously observe the performance and operation of RTR and applications using RTR.

•Chapter 6 describes how to use the CLI interface to RTR API calls and contains a complete description of all RTR commands, listed alphabetically.

•Appendix A tells you how to create your own monitor pictures for special monitoring needs.

•Appendix B describes server shadowing and recovery.

•Appendix C describes how to use RTR with XA and ORACLE.

•Appendix D contains a list of all the error messages that can be returned by the RTR CLI.

•Appendix E contains a list of all messages that RTR can write to the RTR log.

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