Managing SNAplus2 Clients

Managing HP-UX Clients

HP-UX Client Network Data File (sna_clnt.net)

The sna_clnt.net file defines the SNAplus2 facilities available on a client computer running on a HP-UX system, and the servers the client can access. For information about the equivalent file on a Windows client, see Chapter 11, “Managing SNAplus2 Clients.”

It also includes information about setting up the IP port numbers that SNAplus2 uses for client/server communications. The default port numbers should be suitable in most cases; you need to refer to this information only if SNAplus2 logs error messages indicating that there is a port number clash with another program on the HP-UX computer.

A client computer does not hold a copy of the domain configuration file or the SNA network data file; it holds only the information it needs to access servers on the SNAplus2 LAN, and relies on a server to provide the necessary configuration information.

The SNA network information required is held in the file

/etc/sna_clnt.net. This file is set up during the client installation process; it is an ASCII text file that can be modified later as required using a standard text editor. The contents of the file are as follows:

domain = domain_name invoked_tps = YES NO lan_access_timeout = nn broadcast_attempt_count = nn server_lost_timeout = nn

*

servername1

servername2

.

.

.

The following list describes the parameters in each line of the file:

domain

The domain_name parameter value indicates the domain name of the SNAplus2 LAN; this name was specified during the client installation. This line is required.

invoked_tps

Specify invoked_tps = YES if this client is used to run invoked TPs (APPC TPs that issue the RECEIVE_ALLOCATE verb, or CPI-C applications

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