HP-UX SNAplus2 General Information (October 1998)

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SNAplus2 Networking Solutions

Using Multiple Servers

In this conﬁguration, the host continues to run the bank's central

mission-critical applications, while the bank expands its network by

using a single SNAplus2 server to support a number of clients over a

LAN.

The SNAplus2 server is a high-performance product that can be scaled to

meet the needs of the network as the processing requirements increase.

SNAplus2 is limited only by the resources available to the system (and

its licensing limits), because it uses scalable algorithms throughout.

The SNAplus2 server supports multiple HP-UX users, as well as user

applications that run on the HP-UX and Windows clients distributed

around the LAN.

The SNAplus2 HP-UX and Windows clients communicate with the

servers over a LAN using TCP/IP. Clients are not SNA nodes; but they

can run SNA applications using the server's SNA node capability.

Providing SNA support through the SNAplus2 server means that the

amount of code and processing on the client machines can be reduced,

because they are making use of the SNA node capability provided by the

server. Each HP-UX client also supports multiple users.