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TERMDSM: User Interface Change under System Diagnostics

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by Umakanth Rajasekhar
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The underlying Diagnostics Interface has changed. This article gives information on what the user will see and what it means to invoke TERMDSM to diagnose the DTCs and its connected ports.

Starting with MPE/iX Release 6.5, a new diagnostic interface named 'Support Tools Manager' (STM) replaces SYSDIAG (which runs on SHERLOCK Diagnostics.) on HP 3000s. Most of the tools supported previously under SYSDIAG are still supported but they all now run under the MESA Diagnostic platform instead. Some SHERLOCK diagnostics have been replaced with native MESA tools. This article discusses the TERMDSM, the tool that diagnoses DTCs and its connected ports including X.25 connections.

What It Means to the User

Under MESA, Sherlock tools were migrated to MESA as expert tools and utilities. Only Expert tools requires a licence to run under MESA.

All the Diagnostic programs under SYSDIAG are now expert tools in MESA and utilities that run under SYSDIAG are still utilities. They do not require a license to run as before. TERMDSM still runs as a utility under MESA.

The functionality of TERMDSM in diagnosing DTCs and related ports is not changed; only the interface is changed.

What the User Will See

To invoke the utility, TERMDSM, the user has to run 'cstm' at the CI prompt. The user has to make sure that the 'diagmond' process is running in the system. The user will see a prompt from the interface (just like DUI in case of SYSDIAG). At that prompt the user must enter 

  ru termdsm
ru stands for Run Utility. Adequate help is provided with the interface and accelerator keys are also provided to lower the burden on the user to type in long commands.

A sample output from invoking TERMDSM is shown below: 

  MPE/iX: cstm
  :cstm
  Running Command File (/usr/sbin/stm/ui/config/.stmrc).
  -- Information --
  Support Tools Manager
  Version A.11.00
  Product Number B4708AA(C) Copyright Hewlett Packard Co. 1995-1998
  All Rights Reserved
  Use of this program is subject to the licensing restrictions
  described in "Help-->On Version".
  HP shall not be liable for any damages resulting
  from misuse or unauthorized use of this program.
  cstm>
  cstm> ru termdsm
  -- Termdsm Utility. --
  *******************************************************************
  *****                                                         *****
  *****                         TERMDSM                         *****
  *****                                                         *****
  *****          (C) Copyright Hewlett Packard Co.              *****
  *****                1987, 1990, 1993, 1994                   *****
  *****                 All Rights Reserved.                    *****
  *****                                                         *****
  *****                     Version C.01.60                     *****
  *****                                                         *****
  *****  HP shall not be liable for any damages resulting from  *****
  *****  the use of this program.                               *****
  *****                                                         *****
  *****                      Catalog AM.060                     *****
  *****                                                         *****
  *******************************************************************
  Welcome, Today is THU, AUG 19, 1999 at  4:02 PM
  -- Utility : Section selection for TERMDSM. --
  Enable Dialog For Additional Run Options? (y/n)[no]
  
  Your system has these Distributed Terminal Controllers:
  
           DTC      Network
          Number    Address             Name
          ------  ------------  --------------------
           ^
  Use this number as the "DTC number" in Termdsm commands.
  
  Connect  DIag  DTc  DUmp  EEprom  Help  Reset  Status  Trace  EXit ?
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
One addition to this menu driven tool is that MESA has more options to run the tool. For now, this is not suggested for TERMDSM.

In the above query which appears right after the banner showing TERMDSM, 

-- Utility : Section selection for TERMDSM. --
Enable Dialog For Additional Run Options? (y/n)[no].
It is suggested to user to say no in the above to directly proceed to the tool prompt since there are no additional run options provided.

When the TERMDSM's prompt appears, it runs the same way as it used to run under SYSDIAG.

CAUTION: The user is advised NOT to try reset/dump operation from a session connected to the DTC that he/she is diagnosing. This may potentially cause TERMDSM to have an abnormal exit.

Other Commands of Interest

Tools Related

UAL

Utility Activity Log: This gives the status of invoking the tool.

UINF

Utility Information

ABU

Abort Utility: This aborts the tool from custom

Systems Related

In MESA, the user can run diagnostics for remote systems.
CS

Connectsys: Adds systems and able to select the system to test.

DS

Disconnectsys: Disconnects the (remote) system selected for diagnostics.



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