HP UX SNAplus2 manual SNAplus2 Administration, Administration Responsibilities

Introduction to SNAplus2

SNAplus2 Administration

SNAplus2 Administration

As the SNAplus2 administrator, you are responsible for installing the SNAplus2 software and for managing its resources.

Before beginning SNAplus2 administration, you must understand the main features of the SNAplus2 product. This section describes the administration tasks you must perform and the tools you can use to perform them.

Administration Responsibilities

To administer the SNAplus2 system, you need to do the following:

Step 1. Define the resources of the SNAplus2 system, as required by the user programs that will be running. Work with the administrators of the host or peer computers with which SNAplus2 communicates, to ensure that the SNAplus2 configuration matches that of the remote system.

Step 2. Initialize the SNAplus2 software.

Step 3. Optionally, modify the configuration dynamically as your requirements change—by adding or removing resources, or by activating and deactivating the defined resources.

Step 4. Monitor the status of active resources and gather diagnostics information to diagnose any problems that occur.

Step 5. Optionally, create application programs or shell scripts to automate standard management operations.

These tasks are normally performed by a System Administrator at the site where the SNAplus2 system is installed. However, SNAplus2 also provides the service point command facility (SPCF), which enables an operator using the NetView program to perform Steps 3 and 4 remotely by issuing management commands at the NetView console. For more information about SPCF, see Chapter 10, “Managing SNAplus2 from NetView.”

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