Siemens V4.0 manual Introduction to Advanced Server for Unix

2 Introduction to Advanced Server for UNIX

This chapter contains supplementary and additional information on Advanced Server for UNIX that is not contained in the manual entitled “Concepts and Planning” .

The following topics are dealt with:

●Shared resources and services

●Connection management

●Administration

●Application Programming Interface (API)

The section on “Client-server architecture” contains a short description of the client-server architecture. The section entitled “Shared resources” contains information on which network resources of Advanced Server for UNIX can be shared.

The section entitled “Services” introduces the services provided by Advanced Server for UNIX. The section “Connection management” explains the terms “sessions“ as well as “connection”. This section also provides information on the security concept of Advanced Server for UNIX. The manual entitled “Concepts and Planning” contains conceptional infor- mation relating to this topic.

Finally, the section “Administration of Advanced Server for UNIX” provides information on remote administration.

Information on the programming interface and on compatibility can be found at the end of this chapter.

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