Installing and Administering OSI Transport Services

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Planning Your Network
Determine the Services Required
High Availability Service
• Allows you to group programs in “packages” which run on particular
nodes.
• Monitors the health of your SPU, LAN cards, and application
“packages” on each node.
• See the HP OTS/9000 Addendum for more information on configuring
and using HP MC/ServiceGuard with HP OTS/9000.
XTI Service
• Provides a very simple set of functions, for example, connect, send
data (normal and expedited) and disconnect.
• Building blocks that provide a basic and low overhead access to
performing interprocess communication over an OSI network.
• Makes your application source code portable between platforms
following the standard.
Type of
Service
Use if:
Create and
manage highly
available
clusters
You wish to create and manage highly available
enterprise clusters of HP9000 Series 800
computers using the HP MC/ServiceGuard
product.
Type of
Service
Use if:
Transport layer
interface
You are porting existing IPC applications that run
over non-OSI networks and for achieving high
performance as a result of low protocol overhead.