Administration Guide

How to Use This Book

This guide explains how to enable, configure, and manage CS/AIX.

Organization of This Book

This book is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1, SNA Terms and Concepts, provides an overview of SNA and APPN( Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking) concepts.
• Chapter 2, Introduction to CS/AIX, provides an overview of CS/AIX, including its components, the resources it uses, and the user applications that are supported by or provided with CS/AIX.
• Chapter 3, Administering CS/AIX, explains how to prepare for CS/AIX configuration, enable and disable the CS/AIX software on a server, and how to use the Motif and the command-line administration programs.
• Chapter 4, Basic Configuration Tasks, explains how to perform basic configuration tasks for CS/AIX servers, including configuring the SNA node, and configuring message logging for CS/AIX.
• Chapter 5, Defining Connectivity Components, explains how to configure connectivity for the CS/AIX node.
• Chapter 6, Configuring Dependent LUs, explains how to configure dependent LUs (logical units) for LU types 0-3 and LU pools.
• Chapter 7, Configuring APPC Communication, explains how to configure APPC (advanced program-to-program communications).
• Chapter 8, Configuring User Applications, explains how to configure user applications.
• Chapter 9, Configuring Passthrough Services, explains how to configure passthrough services, which support communication between host systems and local systems that are not directly connected.
• Chapter 10, Managing CS/AIX from NetView, explains how to use the CS/AIX remote command facility (RCF) to manage CS/AIX and run commands on CS/AIX nodes from a host running NetView.
• Appendix A, Configuration Planning Worksheets, provides configuration worksheets for CS/AIX.
• Appendix B, Using SMIT to Administer CS/AIX, provides information about using SMIT to manage CS/AIX.
• Appendix C, APPN Network Management Using the Simple Network Management Protocol, provides information about the support provided by CS/AIX for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This appendix also provides a list of the APPN Management Information Base (MIB) databases that CS/AIX supports.
• Appendix D, Configuring an Invokable TP from the Command Line, provides information about the command-line utility that enables a user or the writer of a TP installation program to define an invokable TP.

Typographic Conventions

The typographic styles used in this document are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Typographic Conventions

Special Element	Sample of Typography
Emphasized words	back up files before deleting
Document title	Communications Server for AIX Administration Guide
File or path name	/usr/spool/uucp/myfile.bkp
Program or application	snaadmin
Parameter or Motif field	opcode; LU name
Literal value or selection that the user can enter (including default values)	255; On node startup
Motif button	Status
Motif menu	Services
Motif menu item	Configure node parameters
User input	0p1
Computer output	CLOSE
Command or AIX utility	define_node; cd
General reference to all commands of a particular type	query_* (indicates all of the administration commands that query details of a resource)
Option or flag	-i
Variable representing a supplied value	filename; LU_name; user_ID
Return value	0; -1
3270 key	ENTER
Keyboard keys	Ctrl+D; Enter
Hexadecimal value	0x20
Environment variable	PATH
Function, call, or entry point	ioctl
Programming verb	GET_LU_STATUS