The Operations Pack (TOP)
Top Spool
TOP Spool is a comprehensive spooler monitoring and management tool for NonStop server and workstation printers.
TOP Spool will manage and monitor standard spooler objects such as spooler processes, collectors, print processes, devices (printers), locations, and jobs. It provides:
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Point-and-click control of spooler subsystems from supervisor level down to individual jobs.
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Configuration of spooler subsystems using simple dialogs to specify new supervisors, collectors, print processes, devices and locations.
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Automated job distribution to LAN printers, email contacts, ftp locations, with optional formatting and compression to HTML, PDF and ZIP.
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Smart dialogs and graphics making complex configuration tasks simple.
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Automated monitoring by specifying monitor definitions including total job count, supervisor status, collector status, collector % full, print process status, and device status.
In addition, TOP Comms includes the TOP Explorer with following core components and functionality:
| CPUs: | Type, status and current load. |
| EMS: | Event viewer, collector and distributor status, configuration and control. |
| Find: | Find processes or files. |
| Kernel: | Servernet status and process status, configuration and control. |
| KMSF: | Swapfile status, configuration and control. |
| OSS File System: | Access to files and directories, status, edit, email, transfer, cut, paste, delete, create, etc. |
| OSS Fileset: | Status, configuration and control. |
| OSS Processes: | Status and control of OSS processes. Search to locate processes with specific attributes. |
| OSS Servers: | Status, configuration and control. |
| Processes: | Status and control of Guardian processes. List files and sockets opened by a process. Run arbitrary object files, TACL macros or obey files. |
| Profiles: | Control over who can do what to what using TOP. |
| Safeguard: | Configuration of Safeguard and Safeguard ACLs. |
| Storage: | Status,
configuration, control of S-series storage
devices. Virtual disk space utilisation. Graphical interface to DSAP. |
| TMF: | Configuration, control and monitoring of TMF and its associated resources and attributes. |
| Tools: | The ability to define customized actions to carry out against objects in TOP. |
| Volumes: | Access to volumes, sub-volumes and files. Status, edit, email, transfer, cut, paste, delete, create, etc. |
Sub Solutions
TOP consists of the following components, each of which can be licensed seperately:
TOP Explorer - An easy-to-use GUI for managing nodes and system components. This component provides an interface to most of the common subsystems in the NonStop environment
TOP UserID - An easy-to-use GUI to monitor and manage NonStop user IDs, aliases, and groups
TOP Path - A powerful GUI for Pathway configuration, management and operation
TOP Comms - A comprehensive communications manager for NonStop system
TOP Spool - A comprehensive spooler monitoring and management tool for NonStop server and workstation printers
TOP SDK - A software toolkit for programmers who build workstation-based NonStop server applications
