Introduction to SNAplus2

SNAplus2 Administration

•Using command-line utilities, you can filter trace files to extract or interpret specific information or to produce a summary of message flows. The resulting output files can be viewed using a standard ASCII text editor such as vi.

•SNAplus2 can generate alerts and send them to the NetView program at a host computer. These alerts can be any of the following:

•Link alerts from connectivity components, to provide information about connection problems

•3270 user alerts from the emulation program

•Alerts supplied by an application program using the MS API

Refer to the HP-UX SNAplus2 Diagnostics Guide for information about SNAplus2 log messages, using SNAplus2 trace facilities, and interpreting trace files.

For information about using the MS API, refer to the HP-UX SNAplus2 MS Programmers Guide.

Simple Network Management Protocol Support

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an industry-standard management protocol. SNAplus2 includes an SNMP subagent to provide support for the APPN Management Information Base (MIB) database maintained by AIX.

For a more detailed discussion of SNMP and for a list of the APPN MIB objects that are supported by the SNAplus2 SNMP subagent, see Appendix B, “APPN Network Management Using the Simple Network Management Protocol.”

106

Chapter 2