Avaya PeriView Reference Manual

PeriView Reference Manual

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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

How To Use This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Organization of This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Conventions Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Solaris and Windows NT Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx

Trademark Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Manual (man) Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii

Introduction to PeriView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What is PeriView? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What are PeriView’s Tools?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What is the Work Environment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Configurations and Naming Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Single Processing Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Processing Server Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Components in the Processing Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Types of Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Component Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Sharing Network Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Network Configuration with VAS Support . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Configuring the Network for Sharing Resources . . . . . . . . . . 15

Sample Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sample Configuration Files and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

vpshosts File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

ase.cfg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

gen.cfg File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Ethernet Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

SRP Group Status Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

SRP Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

SRP State Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Sample Installation/Configuration Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Edit the vpshosts File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

VHMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

XVHMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

How is the PeriView Graphical Environment Organized?. . . . . . 45

Elements in the Graphical Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Tree Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

About ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Tool Bars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Progress Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Tree Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Nodes in the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Tree Object States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Component States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Domain, Group, Node States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Summary of Tree Object States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

PeriView Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Security and Data Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

The PeriView Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Window Pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Optimize GUI Display Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Scrollbar Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Screen Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Scrolling Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

System Status, Error and Warning Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

How to Execute PeriView Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using GUI Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Working in PeriView on Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Working in PeriView on NT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Solaris Login to PeriView. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

NT Login to PeriView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

File Path Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

File Chooser Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

PeriView Launcher Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Application Manager Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Activity Monitor Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

PeriView Launcher Tree Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Application Manager & Activity Monitor Tree Controls 51

Node States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Group and Domain States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Benefits and Consequences of Optimization . . . . . . . . . . 67

Set Display Option to Optimize GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Tree Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

PeriView Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Section 1 — Define the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Introduction to the Launcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Solaris Launch of the PeriView Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

NT Launch of the PeriView Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Tree Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Define a Network as Groups and Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Summary of Tree Object States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Domain/Group/Icon Properties Menu Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . 103

Define a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Define a Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Properties Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Change Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Load a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Expand and Collapse a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Expand a Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Expand the Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Expand by Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Expand by Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Expand by Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Expand by VPS or MPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Expand by VAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Expand by TMSCOMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Expand by OSCAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Collapse a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Context Sensitive Launcher Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Launcher Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Section 2 — Launcher Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

A Quick Look at Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Global vs. Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Data Views and Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Data Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

root’s Privileges and Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Privileges for the User root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Constraints for the User root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Data Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Global Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Global Users Configuration File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Define Launcher Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Launcher Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Tree Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Network Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Snapshot Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

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Refresh Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Data View Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Select Launcher Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Change Tree Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Select a Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Select a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Compact/Full Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Launch PeriView Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Use Online Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Launch the Online Documentation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Application Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Section 1 — APPMAN Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Introduction to APPMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Solaris Launch of the Application Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

NT Launch of the Application Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Tree Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Expand and Collapse the Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Tree Object Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Context Sensitive Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Expand by Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Expand by Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Expand by VPS or MPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Expand by VAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Expand by Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

APPMAN Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

A Quick Look at Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

User-Specific Phone Line Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Topology and Data View Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Define APPMAN Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Select APPMAN Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Application Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Types of Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Types of Phone Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Global Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Security, Data View, Privileges Summary . . . . . . . . . . 223

Global Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Application Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

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File Location Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Application Assign/Start Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Application Management Event Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Section 2 — Assign/(Re)Start Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Launch the Assign/(Re)Start Lines Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Assign, Start or Restart Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The Assign/(Re)Start Lines Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Assign/(Re)Start Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Enter Applications Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Enter Locations Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Designate the Assign, Start and Restart Order . . . . . . . 270

Select Assign Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Assign, Start, or Restart Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Assign/(Re)Start Lines Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Section 3 — Terminate/Un-Assign Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Launch the Terminate/Un-Assign Lines Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Terminate/Un-Assign Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

The Terminate/Un-Assign Lines Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Terminate and Un-Assign Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Enter Locations Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Select Terminate/Un-Assign Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Terminate, Un-Assign, Terminate & Un-Assign Lines . 304

Terminate/Un-Assign Lines Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Section 4 — Configure Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Launch the Configure Application Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Configure Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

The Configure Application Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Identify the Application to Configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Define the Application Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Define the Configuration Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Define Custom Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Assign/Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Configuration Options’ Categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Data Processing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Shared Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Host Communications Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Execution Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

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Section 5 — Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Launch the Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Component Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Component Status Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Application Status Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Application Status Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Section 6 — Line Start Order During Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Launch the Line Start Order During Reboot Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 386

How are applications assigned to the list? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Which applications are assigned and started?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

What determines the assigned/started order? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Why reorder the list?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

What affects the order of items on the list? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Where is the information stored? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

How do I reorder the list? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Diagnostic Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Vocabulary Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Section 7 — File Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Launch the File Maintenance Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Select and Remove Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Section 1 — Working with the Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Introduction to the Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Solaris Launch of the Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

NT Launch of the Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Working in the Activity Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Tree Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Expand and Collapse the Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Tree Object Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Context Sensitive Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Monitor Activity and Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Monitor Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Monitor Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

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Tree Objects Without Phone Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

No Graph Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Application Graph Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

A Quick Look at Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Global Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Security, Data View, Privileges Summary . . . . . . . . . . 440

Topology and Data View Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Global Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Personal Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Section 2 — Activity Monitor Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Phone Line Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Graph Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Phone Line Status Graph Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Phone Line Status Graph Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Consolidated versus Individual Viewpoints. . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Phone Line Status Graph Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Linked Application Status Bar Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Launch the Linked Application Activity Graph . . . . . . . . . . 463

Graph Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Linked Graph Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Graph Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Component Span Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Component Span Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Component Span Status Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Component Host Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Component Host Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Define Monitor Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Activity Polling Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Save Graph State as Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Select Monitor Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Alarm Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Introduction to the Alarm Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Solaris Launch of the Alarm Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

NT Launch of the Alarm Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Working in the Alarm Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Source of Alarm Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Live Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

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Default Alarm Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Historical Alarm Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Alarm Viewer Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Alarm Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Viewer Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Locate Alarm Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

View Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

View Live Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

View Default Alarm Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

View Historical Alarm Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Filter Alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Designate Alarm Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Alarm Severity/Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Logging Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Viewer Column Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Alarm Ringing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Alarm Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Viewer Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Load Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Save Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

User Defined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Data Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Source of Alarm Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Size for an Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

VSH Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Section 1 — Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

VSH Command Line on MPS Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

VSH Tool on VPS/is Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Introduction to the VSH Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Solaris Launch of the VSH Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

NT Launch of the VSH Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Access a VSH Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Command Line Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Connection to a Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Component List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Identify and Change the VSH Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

VSH Command Line Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Identify and Change the Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Use the VSH Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Access Man Page Reference Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Solaris Command Man Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

MPS Command Man Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

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MPS Alarm Reference Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

VPS/is Command Man Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

VPS/is Alarm Reference Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

MPS and VPS/is Status/Exception Condition Man Pages . . 581

Menu Access to MPS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Comp Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Section 2 — VSH Line & Vocabulary Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Line Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Line Commands—Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Line Commands—Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Vocabulary Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Vocabulary Commands—Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Vocabulary Commands—MMF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Vocabulary Commands—Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Section 3 — VSH Host, System & User Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Host Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Host—Parameters—Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Host Commands—Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

System Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

System Commands—Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

System Commands—SRP Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

SRP Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

SRP Group Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

SRP Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

SRP Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

SRP Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

System Commands—IPC Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

System Commands—Alarm Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

The Alarm Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Manipulating the Alarm Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Alarm Database Record Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

System Commands—Shared Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

User Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

User Command—Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

User Command—Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

User Command—Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

File Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Introduction to the File Transfer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Host (Node) Equivalency Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Launch the File Transfer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

The File Transfer Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Create, Edit and Delete a Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Transfer Package Procedure Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

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Package Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Group Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Transfer Task Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Execute a File Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Transfer Status Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Transfer Log Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Transfer Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Display Transfer Status Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

View Transfer Log Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

Schedule Transfer Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Task Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Introduction to the Task Scheduler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Host (Node) Equivalency Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Time Synchronization Between Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Task Scheduler Prerequisite Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Launch the Task Scheduler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Launch the Task Scheduler from the File Transfer Tool . . . . . . 733

Launch the Task Scheduler from PeriReporter Tools . . . . . . . . 734

Define and Schedule a Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

View the Scheduler Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

sched.log File Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Define the sched.log File Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Tracing a Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

sched.table File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

at and cron Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

at -l Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

crontab -l Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

cron_error.log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

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Preface

PeriView Reference Manual

Scope

PeriView is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool that you use with the Nortel Networks Media Processing Server Series and Voice Processing Series Platforms (hereafter, collectively known as Processing Server).

The PeriView Reference Manual prov ides i nformat io n about h ow to use PeriView a nd its subset of tools. A companion document, PeriView Quick Start Guide offers a concentrated version of this material.

In addition to these docum ents, refer to the Processing Server reference materi al, available from the Refere nce Ma ter ia l link in PeriDoc.

Intended Audience

This document is useful to any person who uses PeriView to interact with the Processing Server systems. It is expected that you have complete the training programs conducted as part of the initial system installation.

In addition, it is importan t to be familiar with site-specific proce dures relating to the Processing Servers. Basic knowledge of the Solaris and/or Windows NT operating system(s) is assumed.

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How To Use This Manual

Initially, read this manual at least once, from start to finish. Later, you can use the table of contents to locate specific topics. In addition to standard computer terminology, this manual contains some language that can only be explained in the context of the Processing Server systems. Refer to the following documents:

• Glossary of Nortel Networks Media Processing Server Series Terminology.

• Glossary of VPS/is Terminology.

If you are reading this document online, use the hypertext links marked in blue to locate related topics. To move to the topic, <L cursor is positioned over the hypertext link. Click on any point in a Table of Contents entry to move to th at to pic. Cl ic k on t he page numb er of any I ndex en tr y to a ccess that topic. Use the hyperlinks at the top and bottom of each online “page” to help you navigate the documentation. Click on the Nortel Globemark to display the title, software release, publicat ion an d revision number , and rel ease date for the manual you are using.

To familiarize yourself with various specialized textual references within the manual, see Conventions Used in This Manual on page xix.

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Periphonics is now part of Nortel Networks. The name Periphonics, and variations thereof, still appear in this manual only where it is referred to in a product. (Some examples are: a PeriProducer applic ation, t he PERImps pack age, and the perirev command.

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Organization of This Manual

This manual is designed to be a comprehensive reference guide to working within PeriView’s GUI environment and using PeriView’s suite of tools. Each tool is documented in a separate chapter. A summary of these chapters follow.

Chapter 1 — Introduction

Provides an overvi ew of Per iView’s suite of tools ; a conceptual vie w of the Processing Server network; and a plan to setup your network environment. You can learn how to work in a GUI environment and execute PeriView operations. Refer to What is

PeriView? on page 2.

Chapter 2 — PeriView Launcher

Documents the PeriView Launcher, which is PeriView’s administrative tool. You can learn how to define the PeriView network and launch its suite of tools. Refer to

Introduction to the Launcher on page 88.

Chapter 2 — Section 1 — Define the Network

Documents how to use PeriView’s graphical environment to administer and control the Processing Server environment. You can learn how to use GUI tools; define and manipulate objects that represent Processing Server network entities; and interpret network topologies. Refer to Section 1 — Define the Network on

page 87.

Chapter 2 — Section 2 — Launcher Tools

Documents security in the PeriView environment, working within the launcher, and accessing the suite of PeriView tools. You can learn how to define Launcher properties; select Launcher views; launch other PeriView tools; access the Processing Server online documentation. Refer to Section 2 — Launcher Tools

on page 143.

Chapter 3 — Application Manager

Documents the Application Manger and its subset of tools, which you use to manage applications in the Proc ess ing Server network. Refer to Introduction to APPMAN on

page 182.

Chapter 3 — Section 1 — Overview

Provides an introduction to APPMAN. You can learn to manipulate the Processing Server network graphically to accomplish specific operations. This section provides es sential informa tion about the el ements involve d with managing applications in the Processing Server environment. Refer to Section 1 —

APPMAN Overview on page 181.

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Chapter 3 — Section 2 — Assign/(Re)Start Lines

Documents the Assign/(Re)Start Lines tool, which you use to associate

applications with phone lines and initiate their execution. You can learn how to

launch this tool and how to assign applications to phone lines and start, or restart,

applications. Refer to Section 2 — Assign/(Re)Start Lines on page 245.

Chapter 3 — Section 3 — Terminate/Un-Assign Lines

Documents the Terminate/Un-Assign Lines tool, which you use to halt the

execution of applications and disassociate them from phone lines. You can learn

how to launch this tool and how to terminate applications and un-assign them

from phone lines. Refer to Sec ti on 3 — Terminate/Un-Assign Lines on page 283.

Chapter 3 — Section 4 — Configure Application

Documents the Configure Application tool, which you use to define the

environment in which an application executes. You can learn how to launch this

tool and how to configure an appl ication’s run- time parameters . Refer to Sect ion 4

— Configure Applications on page 311.

Chapter 3 — Section 5 — Status

Documents the Status tool, which you use to display the status of a component or

an application. You can learn how to launch this tool and how to display

application and component status information. Refer to Section 5 — Status on

page 365.

Chapter 3 — Section 6 — Line Start Order During Reboot

Documents the Line Start Order During Reboot t ool , whi ch you use to control the

default order in which applications are assigned and started (if so configured)

when the system reboots. You can learn how to launch this tool and how to define

the default order for assigning, starting, and restarting applications. Refer to

Section 6 — Line Start Order During Reboot on page 383.

Chapter 3 — Section 7 — File Maintenance

Documents the File Maintenance tool, which you use to delete files from a

component. You can learn how to launch this tool and how to remove files. Refer

to Section 7 — File Maintenance on page 393.

Chapter 4 — Activity Monitor

Documents the Activity Monitor, which you use to monitor component and application activ ity us ing a set o f g raphs. PLM (Phone Line Mana gement) Line Status graphs monitor the l ine st ate of compon ents a nd a pplic ation s. The Li nked Appl icat ion Activity graph depicts the activity of an application and the applications to which it links. You can also graphically display the status of a digital span or an external host that is associated with a specific component. Refer to Introduction to the Activity

Monitor on page 404.

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Chapter 5 — Alarm Viewer

Documents the Alarm Viewer, which you use to view and log alarms. You can learn how to launch the is tool; display and interpret alarm information; and filter, display, and log alarms. Refer to Introduction to the Alarm Viewer on page 504.

Chapter 6 — VSH Tool

Documents the VSH tool, whi ch you use t o issue c ommands an d tra nsmit me ssages to a component in the Processing Server network.

The VSH tool is available only on the Nortel Networks Voice Processing Series Platform (VPS/is). It is not currently available on the Nortel Networks Media Processing Server Series Platform (MPS100 and MPS 1000).

Chapter 6 — Section 1 — Overview

Describes how to launch the VSH tool and how to issue commands typed at the command line. You can see examples of issuing of VSH commands , lear n how to display Manual (Man) Refer ence Pages, and view t he menu structure used to issue commands. Refer to Section 1 — Overview on page 565.

Chapter 6 — Section 2 — VSH Line & Vocabul ary Commands

Document the menu driven commands that display Phone Line and Vocabulary information. You can learn how to issue these commands and how to inte rpr et th e information they display. Refer to Section 2 — VSH Line & Vo cabulary

Commands on page 587.

Chapter 6 — Section 3 — VSH Host, System & User Commands

Documents the menu driven commands that display information about a component’s external hosts associated with the Voice Processing Series Platform. You can learn how to issue these commands and how to interpret the information they display. Further, you can learn how to add commands to the menu structure. Refer to Section 3 — VSH Host, System & User Commands on page 639.

Chapter 7 — File Transfer Tool

Documents the File Transfer tool, which you use to distribute files across the Processing Server network. You can learn how to transfer files from one location to one or more different network locations. A file transfer package can include a single file, a single directory or a group of related files and/or directories. Refer to

Introduction to the File Transfer Tool on page 694.

Chapter 8 — Task Scheduler

Documents the Task Scheduler, which you use to schedule single occurrence or recurrent tasks. You can learn how to launch the tool, create tasks, and schedule their execution. Refer to Introduction to the Task Scheduler on page 724.

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Conventions Used in This Manual

This manual uses different fonts and symbols to differentiate between document elements and types of information. These conventions are summarized in the following table.

Conventions Used in This Manual Notation Description

Preface

Normal text

important term

system command

file name / directory

on-screen field

Book Reference

cross refer ence

Normal text font is used for most of the document. The Italics font is used to introduce new terms, to highlight

meaningful words or phrases, or to distinguish specific terms fr om nearby text.

This font indicates a system command and/or its arguments. Such keywords are to be entered exactly as shown (for example, users are not to fill in their own values).

This font is used for highlig hting the names of disk directories , files, and extensions for file names. It is also used to show displays on text-based screens (for example, to show the contents of a file.)

This font is used for field labels, on-screen menu buttons, and action buttons.

A term that appears within angled brackets denotes a terminal keyboard key, a telephone keypad button, or a system mouse button.

This font indicates the names of other publications referenced within the document.

A cross reference or man page reference is shown on the screen in blue. Click on the cross reference to access the referenced location. A cross reference that refers to a section name accesses the first page of that section. Click on the man page reference to elicit a pop-up window displaying the subject man page.

The Note icon identifies notes, important facts, and other keys to understanding.

The Caution icon identifies procedures or events that require

special attention. The icon indicates a warning that serious problems can arise if the stated instructions are improperly followed.

The flying Window icon identifies procedures or events that apply to the Windows NT operating system only.

The Solaris icon identifies procedures or events that apply to the Solaris operating system only.

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1. Windows NT and the flying Window logo are either trademarks or registered

trademarks of the Microsoft Corp orat ion .

2. Solaris® is a registered trademark of The Open Group i n the U.S. and other

countries.

Solaris and Windows NT Conventions

This manual depicts examples (command line syntax, configuration files, and screen shots) in Solaris format. In certain instances Windows NT specific commands, procedures, or screen shots are shown where required. The following table lists examples of general operating system conventions to keep in mind when using this manual with either the Solaris or NT operating system.

Solaris Windows NT

Environment $VPSHOME %VPSHOME% Environment $MPSHOME %MPSHOME% Paths $VPSHOME/common/etc %VPSHOME%\common\etc Paths $MPSHOME/common/etc %MPSHOME%\common\etc Command <command> & start /b <command>

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Trademark Conventions

The following trademark information is presented here and applies throughout for third party products discussed within this manual. Trademarking information is not repeated hereafter.

Solaris is a tr adema rk or regist ered trade mark of Su n Micro systems , Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Internet Explorer, and the Flying Windows logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Netscape Navigator is also a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation and can be registered outside the U.S.

Preface

and the Netscape N® and Ship’s Wheel® logos are register ed trade marks of

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Manual (man) Pages

Manual (man) pages provide access to documentation about Solaris system commands, Processing Server commands, status/exception conditions, and alarm information.

• On Solaris systems, you can display man pages from any command line.

• On NT systems, you can display man pages from a DOS prompt/VSH prompt.

The man page appears in a separate browser window. The type of browser window depends on which browsers are installed and what browser is set as the default.

• man pages are always accessible through PeriDoc’s Search page and through hypertext links in the documents.

When working with the Nortel Networks Media Processing Server Series, to access a Man Page for:

• a Solaris system command, use the syntax man <command> (Solaris only).

• an MPS command, use the syntax mpsman <processname> <command>.

On Solaris systems on ly, enter man mpsman for a detailed description of using MPS command manual pages.

• an MPS alarm, use the syntax mpsalarm <processname> <alarm#>. On Solaris systems only, enter man mpsalarm for a detailed description of

using alarm manual pages, or man alarmintro for an overview of MPS alarms and the alarm dat abase.

• an MPS status/excepti on conditi on, use the syn tax conman <condition>. On Solaris systems only, enter man conman for a detailed description of using

MPS condition manual pages.

When working with the Voice Processing Series, to access a Man Page for:

• a Solaris system command, use the syntax man <command> (Solaris only).

• an VPS command, use the syntax vpsman <processname> <command>.

On Solaris systems on ly, enter man vpsman for a detailed description of using VPS command manual pages.

• a VPS alarm, use the syntax vpsalarm <processname> <alarm#>. On Solaris systems only, enter man vpsalarm for a detailed description of using

alarm manual pages, or man alarmintro for an overview of VPS/is alarms and the alarm database.

• a VPS status/exception condition, use the syntax conman <condition>. On Solaris systems only, enter man conman for a detailed description of using

VPS condition manual pages.

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The man page scripts rely on the Windows NT registry settings for default browser information. Older browsers do not set the registry entries required by the man page scripts. Do not use command line Man pages if you are using browsers older than Netscape Navigator 4/Internet Explorer 4.

If you are viewing this document online, click any command highlighted in blue to open a window displaying the manual page for that command.

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Introduction to PeriView

This chapter covers:

1. What is PeriView?

2. What ar e Pe riView’s Tools?

3. What is the Work Environment?

4. How is the Graphical Environment Organized?

5. Security

6. How are PeriView Operations Executed?

7. How do I Launch PeriView?

PeriView Reference Manual

What is PeriView?

PeriView is the suite of graphical tools that you use fo r admi ni str at ion, operation, and control of Nortel Networks Media Processing Server Series and Voice Processing Series Platforms, hereafter collectively known as Processing Server (PS).

You can use PeriView to manipulate and view network activity and to develop and maintain applications in a GUI (Graphical User Interface) environment. The palate of tools display on the tool bar when you log onto PeriView.

PeriView provides for distributive control over network activity. It lets you to define virtual environments and operate within them. Each tool offers a wide range of customization.

You launch each tool individually. You can launch tools sequentially so that you can work with multiple tools. Once you launch a tool, you can iconify it and restore it to view when you need it.

This flexibility permits simultaneous interaction with multiple PeriView operations and allows for network awareness and control in the operating environment. For example, you can view alarms in the Alarm Viewer, monitor applications in the Activity Monitor, and issue commands with the VSH tool while you are assigning, starting, or terminating appl ications.

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What are PeriView’s Tools?

You use PeriView’s suite of tools to administer, operate, control, and view network activity; develop and maintain applications; and, create, manage, and edit speech elements. Additionally, PeriView is equipped with a comprehensi ve online library that you can launch, spontaneously, while working with its palate of tools.

The Launcher is PeriView’s main administrative tool. It displays when you log onto PeriView. You use it to access to the entire palate of tools, which include: PeriView Launcher, Applica tion Manager, Activit y Monitor, Alarm Viewer, VSH, File T r ansfer, Task Scheduler, Spin, PeriReporter Tools, PeriStudio, PeriProducer, PeriWWWord, PeriSQL, and PeriDoc.

Introduction to PeriView

Use the PeriView Launcher to customize the a network’s virtual working environment by defining relationships between member entities; display their hierarchical tree structure graphical l y; and, launch other PeriView tools. See Introduction to the Launcher on

page 88.

Use the Applicatio n Manager (APPMAN) to associate applications with phone lines and start applications; terminate applications and disassociate them from phone lines; configure an application’s run-time environment; display application and component status information, control the default line start order during reboot; and delete fil es from a component. See Introduction

to APPMAN on page 182.

Use the Activity Monitor to graphically represent the states of phone line activity for components and applications and to graphically monitor linked application activity. A set of graphs depict activity in near real-time. You can view a component’s digital span activity and external host status graphically. See

Introduction to the Activ ity Monitor on page 404.

Use the Alarm Viewer to view live and logged alarms. Logging allows you to creat e ala rm log file s. A fi ltering mechani sm lets you to control which alarms display and are logged. See Introduction

to the Alarm Viewer on page 504.

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The VSH tool is supported only on the Voice Processing Series platform. You can issue VSH commands on the MPS100 or MPS1000 platform from a Solaris Command Tool and Windows NT MSDOS window. See Section 1 — Overvie w on page 565.

Use the File Transfer to copy files across a network. Transfer capability lets you duplicate a single file, a single directory, or a group of related files and directories at one or more destination locations. S ee Introduction to the File Transfer Tool on page 694.

Use the Task Scheduler to schedule operations as single occurrence task or as recurrent tasks. You can launch the Task Scheduler from the PeriView Launcher, the File Transfer tool, or PeriReporter Tools. See Introduction to the Task Scheduler on

page 724.

SPIN is a diagnostic tool, which is u sed to ide ntify pr oblems on th e VPS/is platform. The tool is intended for use, primarily, by Nortel Networks support personnel only on the VPS/is platform.

SPIN (S basic components of Processing Server of products to identify problems: interprocess communication (IPC) and the ability of firmware to echo messages back to SPIN.

The first co mponent tests that Nortel Networks operating system software is properly sending messages among core processes. The second component sends messages to firmware images to ensure they can respond in a timely manner.

Typically, you will be working directly with Nortel Networks support when you use this tool.

Use PeriReporter Tools for statistics and reports management. You can generate predefined reports and define and report application-specific statistics.

Typically, PeriReporter Tools reside on the node designated as the site of statistical collection and reporting for the network. Th e tool displays the PeriView tool bar only at the node where you install the PeriReporter Tools software. For i nformation about PeriReporter Tools, see the PeriReporter User’s Guide.

ystem Performance and INtegrity monitor) probes two

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Use PeriStudio to create and edit speech vocabularies for the Processing Server systems. For infor mat ion about PeriSt udio, r efer to the PeriStudio User’s Guide.

Use PeriProducer to cr eate and support i n t era ct ive voice respon se and Web applications. You can build applications in a graphical construction area with a set of building block icons that represent basic functions. For information about PeriProducer, refer to the PeriPr oduc er Us er’s Guid e.

Use PeriWWWord to launch the PeriWWWord utility. You can create and modify the HTML dictionaries that PeriWeb applications reference. For information about PeriWWWord, refer to the PeriWeb User’s Guide.

Use the Nortel Networks SQL Generate and Display tool (PeriSQL), to create, modify, and execute Structured Query Language (SQL) SELECT commands through a graphical interface. For information about PeriSQL, refer to the PeriRDB User’s Guide.

Use the PeriDoc tool to access the comprehensive online resource library, which contains Nortel Networks reference material. See

Use Online Documentation on page 177.

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What is the Work Environment?

The Processing Server systems consists of the hardware and software required to support interactive call processing functions for both voice and Web (Internet) interaction.

In this Beta Version of the PeriView Reference Guide, the component names VPS and MPS are synonymous, except where explicitly differentiated.

Configurations and Naming Conventions

The following description illustrates the Processing Server system concepts and naming conventions used in the PeriView Reference Manual and Quick Start Guide.

Single Processing Server

A single node is the building block in the Processing Server configuration. It is configured with one VPS or MPS component which consists of:

• TMS (Telephony Media Server) hardware.

• ASE (Application Services Environment) and the VOS

(Voice Operating Software) software processes executing on a node.

Node

VPS ASE

VOS

TMS

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