HP UX SNAplus2 manual Command-Line Administration Program

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 -noption 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 -hprovides basic help for command-line administration and usage information for command-line help.

•snapadmin -h-dprovides a list of commands that can be supplied to the snapadmin program.

•snapadmin -hcommandprovides help for the named command.

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