Installing and Administering OSI Transport Services

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Planning Your Network
Determine the Services Required
• Can act as a requestor of operations against a resource (a manager),
or only as a responder to such requests (an agent), or both.
• Provides a programmatic interface to CMIS, which allows you to
write applications acting as either a requestor or a responder.
FTAM Services
• Allows transfer of files across an OSI network.
• Provides facilities to create, delete, and modify files on a remote node.
• Has both a programmatic and interactive interface.
APRI Service
• Provides you with the ability to implement your own OSI application
layer protocols, or custom applications.
• Provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) context negotiation.
• ROSE provides remote operation capabilities to invoke operations on
the remote and receive status on completion. This service runs on top
of the service provided by ACSE and Presentation.
Type of
Service
Use if:
File Transfer You wish to move or manage files across an OSI
network.
Type of
Service
Use if:
General
interprocess
communication
mechanism
You are porting layer 7 protocols to the HP
platform, developing specialized layer 7
applications, or remote operation applications.