The manual “Administering Applications” is intended for UTM application administrators and administration programmers. It describes the program interface for administration which you can use to write your own administration programs, the administration command interface, and the options available for administering message queues.
Readers are expected to have a thorough grasp of the C programming language and to be familiar with openUTM. It is particularly important to have competent knowledge of the generation tool KDCDEF and the program interface KDCS. For further information, please refer also to the openUTM manuals “Generating Applications” and “Programming Applications with KDCS”.
Chapters 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 of this manual contain general information about UTM administration. They are intended both for programmers who write their own administration programs and for the users who use the administration programs. For example, they provide information on the various interfaces that openUTM offers for administering your UTM application, contain examples of how you can use the openUTM administration functions to ensure that your application offers lasting performance and reliability, and introduce you to the options available for central and automatic administration. Chapter 8 also examines the administration of UTM cluster applications on Unix, Linux and Windows systems in greater detail.
Chapters 4, 5, 7 and 11 contain special information for programmers who write their own administration programs. They provide a detailed description of the structure of administration programs and of the dynamic entry and deletion of clients, printers, services and user IDs. Chapter 11 contains all the administration calls for the C program interface and the C data structures of the interface. It also describes in detail which administration functions you can implement with the aid of the interface.
Chapters 6 and 12 address the particular needs of the users of administration commands. Chapter 6 gives you information on synchronous and asynchronous administration using administration commands. Chapter 12 includes a description of the administration commands, and of the functions that you can execute with these commands.
Chapter 13 contains information on administering local message queues and on the administration of printers via a printer control LTERM.