HP-UX SNAplus2 R7 APPC Application Suite User's Guide

APING

Using APING

N is the number of consecutive packets sent by each side before giving the partner permission to send. For

each iteration, each side sends this number of packets, with each one being of the speciﬁed packet size.

Allowable values are

1 to 32767. The default number of consecutive packets is 1.

-u UserID

The user ID that is sent to the partner computer. The user ID can be up to eight characters in length. Use

this parameter if the RemoteSystemIDtransaction program is conﬁgured for security.

-P Password

This is the password for the user ID that is sent to the partner computer. The password, which can be one

to eight characters in length, is required when a user ID has been speciﬁed. If you do not enter a password

after specifying a user ID,

APING will prompt you to enter one.

-r

Randomize the outgoing data buffer. By default, the outgoing data is all zeros.

Output a count of completed transactions along with the timing information.

-q

Quiet operation. No output is produced. If the command succeeds, a return code of zero is returned. If the

command fails, a nonzero return code is returned, and error information is written to the

APING

error log

(aping.err).

-n

Overrides the security parameter. By default, a request for the remote application should include a user

ID and an indication that the password has been veriﬁed. If the destination accepts already-veriﬁed

user IDs, the user ID of the running process is sent without a password. If the destination (provider)

transaction program is not conﬁgured to require security, use the -n option if you receive the error message

XC_SECURITY_NOT_VALID.

-1

This option speciﬁes that data be sent only from the requester TP to the provider TP (not in both directions).

Note

This option is the numeral one (1), not the letter “L”.

If you specify any of the options more than once, the system uses the last one entered.

5.2.2 Using Help

To get help on how to use

APING, enter one of the following commands:

aping ?

aping -h

aping -help