NetView Startup and Termination

This solution handles NetView startup and termination and provides simple procedures for starting and stopping NetView. At sites operating both Control-O and NetView, the status of NetView (up or down) impacts automation tasks and capabilities. Therefore, the site must maintain two prerequisite conditions for each task started by NetView, which indicate NetView status:

These conditions are updated by Control-O according to the NetView started task initialization and termination messages and can be used as prerequisite conditions for Control-O rules that use or control NetView resources.

This solution also maintains a set of global variables that indicate the availability of different NetView resources:

%%STATUS_netview

%%STATUS_netvssi

%%STATUS_NPDA

%%STATUS_NLDM

Note: While startup or termination is in process—but not yet completed—the IOA environment considers NetView or the NetView subsystem as both "not up" and "not down." Therefore, NetView not being up is not necessarily the same as NetView being down, and vice versa.