Who Should Read This Manual; How This Manual Is Organized - HP NonStop TMF Programming Manual

About This Manual

Who Should Read This Manual

You should read this manual if you are an experienced application programmer in one
of the following categories:

A Transaction Application Language (TAL), C, C++, or COBOL85 programmer
writing applications that need to control or monitor TMF

A TACL user writing macros or routines that control or monitor TMF
To use this manual effectively, you should be familiar with the following subjects:

Basic NonStop system architecture

Programming for the HP NonStop OS

Programming using TAL, TACL, C, C++, or COBOL85

Reading declarations written in the Data Definition Language (DDL), as described
in the "Summary of DDL for SPI" appendix in the SPI Programming Manual.

The Distributed Systems Management (DSM) facilities

The tasks necessary for managing TMF

How This Manual is Organized

In this manual, Sections 1 through 3 give background information and programming
considerations, including the following:

The architecture of TMF and how a management application fits into it

The types of objects managed by TMF and the operations necessary to manage
these objects

The kinds of events reported by TMF

How to set up communications with TMF, including how to start the TMFSERVE
process (Section

Programming considerations for management applications that manage TMF
(Section 3)
Sections 4 through 7 provide reference information, as follows:

Subsystem-specific information about tokens, token values, and related definitions
defined by other sources (such as SPI and EMS) and used by the DSM interfaces
to TMF (Section

Descriptions of tokens, token values, and related definitions defined by TMF
(Section 4)

Detailed descriptions of all programmatic commands that can be directed to TMF
and their corresponding responses from TMF
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