HP UX SNAplus2 manual Client/Server Support

Introduction to SNAplus2

SNAplus2 Components

•Windows CPI-C

•Windows LUA

•Windows CSV

•3270 Emulator Interface Specification

For more information about Windows SNA APIs, see the documentation provided with Microsoft SNA Server.

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Client/Server Support

Computers running SNAplus2 can be configured to communicate using client/server protocols. When client/server protocols are used in a network, all the computers using client/server protocols to communicate in that network are referred to as a domain. Each computer in the network specifies the same domain name when SNAplus2 is installed.

The computers running SNAplus2 in a client/server configuration can take the following roles:

•A server contains an SNA node and its associated connectivity components. The server provides SNA connectivity to applications on the local system or on other machines in the same domain.

•A client does not contain SNA components, but accesses them through a server. A client can access one or more servers at the same time, and can run concurrent applications as needed.

Servers must be HP-UX computers; clients can be running HP-UX or Windows. Servers and clients communicate across the SNAplus2 domain using TCP/IP.

You can configure one or more separate SNAplus2 domains on the same physical network, using a unique name for each different domain. Use the same domain name for all SNAplus2 servers and clients that belong the same domain. A single SNAplus2 domain can correspond to a TCP/IP subnet, can be part of a TCP/IP subnet (so that there are two or more separate SNAplus2 domains in the same subnet), or can span multiple subnets.

Each server maintains information about its own node configuration in a node configuration file. You can use the SNAplus2 administration tools, described in “Administration Tools”, to examine and modify the node's

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