To start an INMC link with a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS system, SOLVE management services system, or NetView system, issue a LINK START command. This command is described in detail in the NonStop NET/MASTER MS Command
Reference Manual.
When access is acknowledged, the status of the INMC link becomes ACTIVE. You can use the SHOW LINKS command to check the status of INMC links.
Logging On to a
Remote System
To send commands to and receive the results from a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS system, SOLVE management services system, or NetView system, you must be logged on to that system. If ISR does not allow unsolicited event message flow but you want to receive unsolicited messages from a remote system, you must also log on to that system.
Note If you are logged on to the remote system and can also receive unsolicited event messages from ISR, the messages may be displayed twice on your local OCS window (once from ROC and once from ISR). You can prevent the same message from being displayed twice by profiling your remote user ID to not receive EMS messages; then only ISR displays the message.
If your password is the same on both systems, you can implicitly log on to the remote system by using the ROUTE command (see “Automatically Logging On to a Remote System,” later in this section). If you have a different password assigned to your user ID on the remote system, you must explicitly log on to the remote system before routing a command to it.
Explicitly Logging On to a Remote System
Use the SIGNON linkname command to explicitly log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS, SOLVE management services, or NetView system. Explicitly logging on to a remote system, even if your password is the same as on your local system, allows you to:
Specify whether you want the message identifier (optionally enclosed in parentheses) associated with the remote system to be prefixed to messages received at your local terminal.
Override the default message identifier associated with the target system (part of the link definition) by using an identifier of your choice.
Assign your own background color, text color, and highlighting attributes to messages received from the target system.
Logging On to a Remote System
Note Do not confuse the SIGNON linkname command with the SIGNON command (issued with no operands). SIGNON (issued with no operands) is used to automatically refresh your user ID definition record (if your system manager makes any security-related changes while you are logged on to NonStop NET/MASTER MS, for example), and is discussed in Section 2, “User ID Management Services (UMS).”
Password Considerations
If your user ID definition record on the remote system has a password that is different from your local password, you must include the PASSWORD operand with your SIGNON command.
Your password is displayed on the command input line; however:
The password is overwritten with blanks in the command echo (either in the OCS message display area or in the Command Entry facility message display area). The password is overwritten with blanks in the history buffer (if you retrieve a SIGNON command from the history buffer, you must reenter the password portion in order to reissue the command).
The password is not displayed in the activity log.
In a heterogeneous network comprising NonStop NET/MASTER MS systems, SOLVE management services systems, and NetView systems:
SOLVE management services and NetView systems require uppercase passwords. NonStop NET/MASTER MS is case-sensitive in relation to passwords.
Therefore:
If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS system, the password can contain both uppercase and lowercase letters. If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote SOLVE management services or NetView system, the password must be entered in all uppercase letters. If you issue a SIGNON command to log on to a remote NonStop NET/MASTER MS system from a SOLVE management services or NetView system, the password defined to NonStop NET/MASTER MS must be uppercase.
If the Remote System Is Inactive
If the link to the remote system is not active, the SIGNON command is queued and completes automatically when the link becomes active.
Note As soon as the link becomes active, any unsolicited messages are immediately received at your local terminal. To ensure that all outstanding non-roll-delete messages are redelivered, the initial OCS command (PROFILE INITCMD) processing at the remote system should include a NRDRET command.
Logging On to a Remote System
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Specifying a Message Prefix
By default, the results of a NonStop NET/MASTER MS, SOLVE management services, or NetView command routed to a remote system are displayed on your local terminal, prefixed with the message identifier (enclosed in parentheses) associated with the particular link name.
You may specify that the message identifier not be prefixed to messages from a remote system by including the PREFIX=NO operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON PREFIX=NO
You may specify a one to eight-character message identifier of your choice by including the ID=msg-id operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON ID=BOS
Finally, you may request that the message identifier not be enclosed in parentheses by including a PAREN=NO operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON PAREN=NO
Overriding the Configured Background Color, Text Color, and Highlighting of Messages
By default, the results of a NonStop NET/MASTER MS, SOLVE management services, or NetView command routed to a remote system are displayed on your local terminal with the background color, text color, and highlighting attributes assigned to that particular link when the link was defined. In this way, you can easily determine from which remote system messages come.
You can select a background color of your choice to override the default color attribute associated with a particular link by including a BKGCOLOR=color-option operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON BKGCOLOR=WHITE
You can select a text color of your choice to override the default text color attribute associated with a particular link by including a COLOR=color-option operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON COLOR=RED
You can select a highlighting option of your choice to override the default highlighting attribute associated with a particular link by including a HLITE=hlite-option operand with your SIGNON command. For example:
SIGNON BOSTON HLITE=BLINK If the Link Fails
If a link fails while you are logged on to a remote system, you are automatically logged on again when the link becomes active again, unless the link is reset.
Logging On to Multiple Remote Systems
If a link is reset (see the discussion on “Resetting a Link,” later in this section), you are notified that the connection will not be restarted. You must log on again if a new connection is required.
Automatically Logging On to a Remote System
If you send a ROUTE command to a remote system without explicitly logging on to it, the ROUTE command logs you on automatically with your local password, by issuing an implicit SIGNON command. This means that your password at both the local and remote system must be the same.
Caution If you have a password with lowercase letters at your local NonStop NET/MASTER MS system, you cannot implicitly log on to a remote SOLVE management services or NetView system because the SOLVE management services and NetView systems require uppercase passwords.
If the link is not active, the ROUTE command is rejected. Using the SIGNON command frees you from having to wait for the link to become active.
Note If you implicitly log on to a remote system with the ROUTE command, you cannot override the default message identifier, color, or highlighting attributes associated with the link.