User functions include all day to day monitoring and management tasks for all supported Pathways.  These include:

  • Monitoring and affecting the state and configuration of various Pathways and their entities

Use your Guardian User ID/Alias & password to logon to the NonStop Server you are connected to.  Web ViewPoint Pathway user functions are accessible from the “Pathway” tag name in the “Operation” menu.

Web ViewPoint Pathway uses a hierarchical tree structure to allow you to navigate through the all the learned pathways.

Clicking on Pathways shows the overall summary of all Pathways present in that node. Summary shows all the high-level stats of TERM, TCP & SERVER.

Please note that the list of Pathways displayed are those previously learned via the Administration functions (described earlier in this document) of Web ViewPoint Pathway.  This also is the case any time references are made to “all Pathways” or “Pathways” in this section.

Clicking on the name of a Pathway (on the left panel) populates the right panel with detailed information of that Pathway i.e. Properties, TERM, TCP and SERVER related info.

The following sections describe the features and commands available in each section.

Available Operations and Commands

  • Pathway level operations – These are commands available when you click on the name of a Pathway of a selected NonStop Server on the hierarchical navigation tree.
  • Selecting Entities – This topic reviews the available entity selection options. These options and their selected methods are common to or similar for all Object commands.
  • Quick Commands – Describes methods where you can quickly issue multiple commands to the same or subsets of previously selected entities.
  • Objects & Commands – Lists and briefly reviews a list of commands for all Objects. Where applicable it describes the built-in intelligence of command management.
Pathway Level Operations

Following operations are available on the right panel after clicking on the Pathway name of a selected NonStop Server on the left panel:

  • Properties – Displays current status & statistics of the selected Pathway. This is a complete set of current data that would otherwise need to be retrieved from a combination of “INFO PATHWAY”, “STATUS PATHWAY”, and “STATUS PATHMON” commands via Pathcom.

Error messages are returned if the selected Pathway is not currently running or whose MAXSPI (a parameter defined at cold start of a Pathway – default is one) value is reached. It also shows the graphical representation of currently used vs remaining (based on the MAX parameters set).

TCP –  Selecting Entities

Clicking on the TERM tab displays all the list of commands that you can apply to the selected entities.

The right panel of the screen is further divided into two sections:

  • Lists all the commands that you can to apply for selected entities
  • Identify entities that you want to apply the commands to.

You can select any command from the left side and then make necessary selections to the Entity parameters on the right side.

Available options for selecting entities are as follows:

  • All (object name) – Selected command applies to all entities. In this case a command with a “*” qualifier is sent to the Pathmon process, asking for execution of this command to all current entities for the given Object.  Note that this includes even entities which may not have been previously learned.
  • Select – Web ViewPoint Pathway displays an alphabetically ordered list of all learned entities for you to choose from. Select any one or more entities to apply the command to.
  • Group – Web ViewPoint Pathway displays a list (via a drop-down list-box) of all previously defined Groups (see Managing Groups later in this document). You may select a Group and have Web ViewPoint Pathway execute the command against all entities which are part of this Group.
  • Type – You are given the option to manually type in the name of a single Entity to apply the command to. No wildcards are supported.  You may even enter the name of an Entity which has not been learned before.
  • Only if: – This enables you to apply the selected command to entities based on their current state (e.g. Abort All TERMS which Suspended are). Note that the list of displayed state options to choose from varies and is dependent on the selected Object and command.  Upon issuance of a command, Web ViewPoint Pathway examines the current state of each entity for the selected Pathway and Object.  The selected command is issued, if the current state of an entity matches your selected option.

Click on the Submit button to issue the selected command, after one of the above options is chosen to identify the target entities.  Results of the executed command are displayed in the right panel.

Quick Commands

Web ViewPoint Pathway displays the results of an executed command on an Object’s entities, on the browser Windows right panel.

You may click on the refresh icon  on the toolbar to execute the same command again for the same entities.

To issue a new command on the same entities, click on the command iconon the toolbar.  This shows a list of all available commands for the selected object.  Simply select a command from the list.

There is also a check-box displayed to the left of each entity name in the displayed results.  You may select any one or more entities by checking their checkbox.  If you now click on either the refresh  or command icon , the new command only applies to the selected entities.  Note that for some results (e.g. list of ASSIGNs for SERVER Classes) entity name may be repeated for multiple rows.  You only need to select one row.  Web ViewPoint Pathway treats multiple selections of the same entity as one.

Objects and Commands

Clicking on a Pathway name displays its Objects (TERM, TCP, SERVER).  An Object is listed if it has a max value (e.g. MAXTCPS) greater than zero.

Click on an Object’s tab to see a list of available commands and entity selection area.  Select a command, and Web ViewPoint Pathway displays a prompt set on the right panel where you can specify entities to apply the command to (see Selecting Entities earlier in this document).  Following are the available commands for each Object:

Note:

– Pathcom equivalent commands are listed

– Where applicable, the option to carry out a command based on the current state of entities is listed (state option: list).

  • TERM

  • Abort

ABORT TERM

State options: SUSPENDED, RUNNING

  • Alter

ALTER TERM

  • Delete

DELETE TERM

  • Info

INFO TERM

State options: [Not] RUNNING, STOPPED, SUSPENDED.

  • Resume

RESUME TERM

State option: SUSPENDED.

  • Restart

ABORT TERM and START TERM

State option: SUSPENDED.

  • Start

START TERM

State option: STOPPED.

  • Stats

STATS TERM

State option: RUNNING.

  • Status

STATUS TERM

State options: [Not] RUNNING, STOPPED, SUSPENDED.

  • Stop

STOP TERM

State option: RUNNING.

  • Suspend

SUSPEND TERM

State option: RUNNING.

  • Add

ADD TERM – This is the only command which is displayed as a button on the top right corner of the screen. Clicking on Add button open a new modal window with all required fields for user to input.

  • TCP

   

  • Alter

ALTER TCP

  • Delete

Delete TCP

  • Info

INFO TCP

State options: [Not] PENDING, RUNNING, STOPPED.

  • Refresh

REFRESH TCP

State options:  RUNNING.

  • Start

START TCP

State options:  STOPPED.

  • Stats Terms

STATS TERM TCP

  • Stats

START TCP

State options:  RUNNING.

  • Stats Server

STATS SERVER TCP

  • Status

STATUS TCP

State options: [Not] PENDING, RUNNING, STOPPED.

  • Stop

STOP TCP

State options: PENDING, RUNNING, not STOPPED.

  • Switch

SWITCH TCP

State options:  RUNNING.

  • Add

ADD TCP – This is the only command which is displayed as a button on the top right corner of the screen. Clicking on Add button open a new modal window with all required fields for user to input.

 

  • SERVER

  • Alter

ALTER SERVER

Special considerations: There are five tabs:

  • Base – alter one or more attributes
  • CPU/Process – alter CPU and Process setting
  • Assigns – Alter ASSIGN(s)
  • Defines – Alter DEFINE(s)
  • Params – Alter PARAM(s)

For Assigns, Defines, and Params, information is displayed in a grid/tab format.  You can edit items for each of these categories by clicking on their name (blue ribbon).

Click on the Add button (right of the panel) and enter values to add the new entries to the grid.  To remove items (use Set Like list box above the grid to retrieve and display current setting for a selected SERVER) off the grid. Delete button is present to the right of any row, click on Delete button to delete the newly added entry.

 

Once all changes are in place (you may alter many things at once, and edit multiple things on multiple tabs), click on Alter command.

Alter assumes that the selected SERVERs are in a STOPPED status and just issues the needed ALTER commands.

  • Delete

Delete SERVER

  • Freeze

FREEZE SERVER

  • Info

INFO SERVER

Special considerations: There are five info options:

  • Base values – returns main attributes (e.g. NUMSTATIC)
  • Defines – returns SERVER DEFINE(s), if any
  • Assigns – returns SERVER ASSIGN(s), if any
  • Params – returns SERVER PARAM(s), if any
  • CPU Load – returns SERVER CPU Distribution(s), if any
  • Restart

STATUS SERVER,

[FREEZE SERVER], [STOP SERVER], [THAW SERVER]. START SERVER

  • Start

START SERVER.

  • Stats Linkmon

STATS LINKMON SERVER

  • Stats TCP

STATS TCP SERVER

  • Status

STATUS SERVER

State options:  FROZEN, FREEZE PENDING, PENDING, THAWED.

  • Status Process

STATUS DETAIL SERVER

  • Stop

STOP SERVER

  • Stop Process

STATUS DETAIL SERVER, Guardian STOP of each Process

  • Thaw

THAW SERVER

  • Add

ADD SERVER – This is the only command which is displayed as a button on the top right corner of the screen. Clicking on Add button open a new modal window with all required fields for user to input.