AIF Enhancement to AIFPROCGET Overview

by John Berry
Commercial Systems Division

The Architected Interface Facility (AIF): Operating System product (HP36374A), version A.08.00, contains an enhancement to AIFPROCGET in MPE/iX Release 5.5. A new item, 2149, was added to AIFPROCGET to return connection information. This enhancement makes it easier for the system manager and/or operator to monitor who is connected to an HP 3000.

When AIFPROCGET is called with item number 2149, it retrieves information on sockets owned by a given process (pin or pid). This item can be used to request information on all or just incoming socket connections belonging to a process. The maximum number of sockets that can be opened per process is currently 1,024.

Socket information is available for Internet/ARPA protocol stack users only. Information for non-internet protocol stacks such as SNA, NetWare and/or Appletalk is not available through this item. Also, information for regular DTC terminals, DTC/TAC (Telnet Access Card) and TEB (Telnet Express Box) is not available.

For more details, see the technical article, "AIF Enhancement to AIFPROCGET Details," in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."