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> o How do I add commands to the command line and forms
> based PM ?
>
You develop an MSL description of your managed object. The management
description includes a detailed description (hence the name) of your
object, including the directives it supports, their arguments responses
and exceptions AND all of the attributes (broken down by partitions)
of the object. This process applies all the way down the object,
applying to all children. See chapter 7, Vol 1 of the System
Reference Manual (order #AA-PDL5A-TE, AA-PE55A-TE)
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> o How do I add commands to the IM PM ?
>
The IMPM is data driven from the information in the dictionary. The
information in the dictionary about your new entities gets in there
via your MSL (see above).
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> o Can command functionality be added dynamically at the
> customer's site.
>
Yes, by loading the new entity descriptions into the dictionary.
I think your question is implying a little bit more, but I'll leave it
up to you to shed more light on it...
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> o What kind of attributes can be set by other modules in
> the IM ?
>
I don't understand this question. Can you rephrase it? Each management
module has its own information added into the dictionary; that infor-
mation dictates what the attributes are that can be managed.
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> o Can icons be collapsed into one "super" icon and expanded
> again ?
>
Nope. You can double-click to "look into" a domain and that will
"explode" into a new map with its members on the map. Double-clicking
into a Bridge Icon (frinstance) will get you a 'graphi-textual' display
of the bridge cubentity structure. (see the docs on this one).
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> o I have had problems storing a domain and having it keep
> the icon positions and lines between them, is this a bug
> or am I doing something wrong ?
Works for me. Are you doing a "save Map" operation? before you exit?
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> o Will the PMs be part of the MCC kernel that will be bundled
> with the operating systems ?
>
> o I have heard that MCC is looking at integrating the VCS user
> interface into MCC, is this true ?
I'll leave these to the developers.
/doug
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> o Will the PMs be part of the MCC kernel that will be bundled
> with the operating systems ?
>
Both will be bundled with VMS. I don't know if thats true for ULTRIX.
> o I have heard that MCC is looking at integrating the VCS user
> interface into MCC, is this true ?
We looked at the VCS interface and saw many similarities. Some things
VCS did better (the VCS's icons are flashy!), some things MCC did
better. The current plan is to integrate the icons that represent
the NODE4 class for V1.2.
/Jim
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