About This Book

This section explains how information is organized and presented in this book.

This book is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 “Introduction to SNAplus2 Administration Commands”: Provides an overview of the tasks involved in administering SNAplus2, provides an overview of how to use the snapadmin administration program, and describes characteristics (such as parameter type) that are common to parameters used by all commands.
Chapter 2 “Commands (activate_session to initialize_session_limit)”: Provides detailed information about the parameters required for commands activate_session to initialize_session_limit.
Chapter 3 “Commands (query_3270_diag to query_userid_password)”: Provides detailed information about the parameters required for commands query_3270_diag to query_userid_password.
Chapter 4 “Commands (remove_dlc_trace to term_node)”: Provides detailed information about the parameters required for commands remove_dlc_trace to term_node.
Appendix A “Common Return Codes from snapadmin Commands”: Lists error return codes that are common to all commands.
Appendix B “Configuration Files”: Describes the contents of the data files that control how SNAplus2 operates and explains how to modify these files if required.
Appendix C “Environment Variables”: Provides a brief summary of all the environment variables that are used by SNAplus2 programs.

Table 1 “Typographic Conventions” shows the typographic styles used in this document.

Table 1 Typographic Conventions

Special Element	Sample of Typography
Document title	HP-UX SNAplus2 Administration Command Reference
File or path name	`sna.net`
Directory name	`/etc/opt/sna/`
Program or application	snapadmin
Command or utility	define_node; snaphelp
General reference to all commands of a particular type	For example, query_* indicates all the administration records that query details of a SNAplus2 resource (`query_cn`, `query_cos`, `query_dlc`, and so on).
Option or flag	`-d`
Parameter	`lu_name`
Literal value or selection that the user can enter (including default values)	`255`
Constant (one of several possible parameter values)	`FIRST_IN_LIST`
Return value	`INVALID_LU_ALIAS`
Variable representing a supplied value	`infile`
Environment variable	`LANG`
User input	`snapadmin status_dependent_lu,pu_name=ETH0`
Function, call, or entry point	ctime()
Data structure	`alert_3270_data`
Field name (in a data structure)	`c_cflag`
Keyboard keys	ENTER
Hexadecimal value	`0x20`

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