HP-UX SNAplus2 NOF Programmer's Guide

NOF API Verbs (ACTIVATE_SESSION to OPEN_FILE)
DEFINE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY
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parent_name Fully qualified name of the parent resource; for an LU
the parent resource is the owning Control Point, and
for an end node or LEN node it is the network node
server. The name is a 17-byte EBCDIC string,
right-padded with EBCDIC spaces. It consists of a
network ID of up to 8 A-string characters, an EBCDIC
dot (period) character, and a network name of up to 8
A-string characters.
This parameter should be set to all binary zeros in the
following cases:
• When registering a network node CP
• When the verb is being issued to an end node or
LEN node to define an adjacent LEN node CP with
which the local node communicates directly.
parent_type Specifies the parent type of the resource being defined.
Possible values are:
AP_ENCP_RESOURCE
End node (for an LU resource owned
by an end node)
AP_NNCP_RESOURCE
Network node (for an LU resource
owned by a network node, or for an
EN or LEN resource).
Set this parameter to zero when no parent resource
name is supplied.
Returned Parameters: Successful Execution
If the verb executes successfully, SNAplus2 returns the following
parameters:
primary_rc AP_OK
Returned Parameters: Parameter Check
If the verb does not execute because of a parameter error, SNAplus2
returns the following parameters: