HP e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 System Software Maintenance Manual (30216-90325)

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Support Tools Manager (STM) for MPE/iX
Getting Help
Figure 7-8. Diagram of STM's Distributed Structure
The UI system contains the binaries for the graphical, menu, and command line interfaces,
as well as for the Core UI which underlies them. The UI also contains the text to be
displayed (message catalogs and help volumes).
The Unit Under Test (UUT) contains the binaries for the support tools (Diagnose, FW
Update, Exercise, Expert, etc.) and the libraries which support them.
Improving Performance
This distributed design makes for good performance. This is because data and code reside
on the machine that makes use of them. The UI system has code for the UI, and message
text for both the UI and support tools. The UUT system has the support tool executables.
Little text is passed between the two machines, usually only the information required to
locate a message.
Getting Help
STM provides sophisticated and full-featured help systems for the main STM interface and
for interactive tools such as Logtool. See Figure 7-9. for a sample help display in mstm.
To access an online help system:
• mstm: Press the “Help” function key.
• cstm: Enter the command help.