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Administration Commands
aping
Parameter Check
If the command does not execute because of a parameter error, SNAplus2 returns the following parameters:
primary_rc
PARAMETER_CHECK
secondary_rc
Possible values are:
INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE
The value specified in the resource_type parameter was not valid.
INVALID_MESSAGE_TYPE
The value specified in the message_type parameter was not valid.
INVALID_RTP_CONNECTION
The resource_name parameter does not match any RTP connection.
State Check
No specific state errors, other than those listed in Appendix A, Common Return Codes from snapadmin Commands, occur for this command.
Other Conditions
Appendix A, Common Return Codes from snapadmin Commands, lists combinations of primary and secondary return codes that are common to all commands.
2.4 aping
The aping command is the APPN version of the “ping” utility and allows a management application to check the communications path from a local LU to a remote LU in the network.
Instead of using the aping command, you can use the APING program described in
SNAplus2 aping is implemented using an
This command is intended for checking the path to an LU on a remote node. Using aping to check communications with a partner LU on the local node will impact the performance of other programs on the local computer, and is not recommended.
This command must be issued to a running node.
2.4.1 Supplied Parameters
Parameter name | Type | Length | Default |
[aping] |
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lu_name | character | 8 | (null string) |
lu_alias | character | 8 | (null string) |
plu_alias | character | 8 | (null string) |
mode_name | character | 8 |
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tp_name | character | 64 | APINGD |
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