Scf And The Dsm Family Of Products; Subsystem Programmatic Interface; The Subsystem Control Point; Figure 4-1. Overview Of Scf - HP T9576G06 Management Manual

Introduction to SCF for the SNMP Agent
If you start the NonStop agent with its built-in defaults, you can use SCF to modify the
default configuration values. If you start the NonStop agent without any predefined
configuration values, you can enter the complete configuration through SCF.

SCF and the DSM Family of Products

SCF is part of the Distributed Systems Management (DSM) family of products. DSM
provides applications, services, and tools to help you manage the operations of
networks of distributed systems. Its architecture and interfaces to help you automate
management of such networks.

Subsystem Programmatic Interface

The management services provided by DSM depend on the Subsystem Programmatic
Interface (SPI), a set of procedures, data definitions, and protocols that support the
interface between the operations and subsystem environments. SPI is the foundation
on which some management applications are built, and the foundation of the SCF
interface to HP subsystems that support SPI.

The Subsystem Control Point

SCF provides an operator interface to an intermediate process called the Subsystem
Control Point (SCP). The SCP process is a network-management process that
receives and distributes messages sent by SCF to HP subsystems. The SCP process
provides the interface between SCF and the NonStop agent, as
The SCP process provides security (by restricting access to sensitive commands),
version control, and tracing support for subsystems, and it supports NonStop
application processes. SCF automatically opens and closes the SCP process as
needed. For more information on the SCP process, refer to the SCF Reference Manual
for SCP.

Figure 4-1. Overview of SCF

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