The interface software includes a command interface that enables you to change some of the operating parameters controlling interface without having to stop and restart the interface. With the command interface, you can perform the following tasks:
Clear or switch primary and secondary server connections
Request status information
Change filtering options
Reload the filter file
Change sampling rates for utilization statistics
Changes made using these commands are not permanent. To make them permanent, you must make the changes to the appropriate start-up file; configuration file or filter file, as described in Section 3.
To use the interface commands, you must know the job number (mix-number) of the instance of the interface software whose parameters you want to alter.
Enter the following command to determine the mix-number:
STATUS PROGRAM SINGLEPOINTTEST
The interface command format is
mix-number AX command
where:
mix-number
is the job number of the Operations Sentinel MCP Interface program that is currently running.
command
is the interface command.