When SP-AMS sends a command to the interface software, the command text is always echoed back to the Operations Sentinel server. When SP-AMS sends a command to the interface software and the command solicits additional information from the MCP host system, a compound message is returned to the Operations Sentinel server consisting of the echoed command text followed by the solicited information message. This is the format of the response message:

command-text {<NL> response}

where:

-command-text

is a copy of the initiating command sent by Operations Sentinel to the host system.

<NL>

is the newline character.

response

is the response that the host system generated as a result of receiving the command from Operations Sentinel. Each line of multiple line responses is delimited by a newline character and passes through SP-AMS as a discrete message.