Motif Administration Program

Motif Administration Program

The Motif administration program provides complete system administration facilities in a single easy-to-use windowed tool for Motif displays.

The Motif administration program provides single-point control over the complete SNAP-IX system. The administrator can view the status of all resources on a particular server, zoom in on an individual resource to view more detailed information, and modify the configuration as required. Full context-sensitive help is included.

The program provides simple, single-point control over a SNAP-IX system, allowing the system administrator to configure, manage, and diagnose problems in the entire SNAP-IX system from a single terminal session.

Using the program, the operator can:

• set up the initial configuration of an SNA system, or change the configuration dynamically as required
• determine which services and users are currently active, and when they were started
• determine the status of LUs, sessions, and connectivity resources
• activate and deactivate resources
• control the level and type of diagnostic information generated by the system, and the file or files to which it should be written.

"List boxes" simplify the presentation and selection of valid alternatives.

All dialogs provide context-specific on-line help for the fields on the dialog, and all error and warning popups have help which provides cause and recommended actions for the error.

Command-line Administration Program

The command-line administration program allows individual configuration and management operations to be initiated from the UNIX shell. This permits groups of common operations to be automated using a shell script.

The program provides access to the same functions as the Motif administration program.