Client applications are typically used for presentation purposes, and allow for user-friendly graphical user interfaces. openUTM-Client is a special product provided for developing client applications that use the services of UTM applications. Within these client programs, you can use the X/Open program interfaces CPI-C or XATMI.
For instance, these program interfaces enable you to connect a Visual C++ presentation program on a PC to a UTM application. With this client program, you can input commands for administering a UTM application via a graphical interface on a PC. You can use PC tools to perform statistical analyses by transferring the statistics supplied by openUTM to other PC programs, formatting the statistics graphically, and thus integrating them fully into your Office environment.
The security functions and the easy-to-use restart function in openUTM are also available when you connect client applications.
The openUTM-Client builds on the carrier system. The carrier system’s task is to establish the connection to other components such as the transport access system.
UTM-Clients can be used as a platform for the UPIC carrier system or for the OpenCPIC carrier system. The carrier system you select depends on the type of application. The most important properties of the two carrier systems are described in the following.