The format of the DEFINE command is: DEFINE component component-options Components types are: EXECUTOR LINE LOGGING NODE OBJECT PROCESS SYSTEM For more help use: HELP component-type HELP DEFINE component-type 2 EXECUTOR Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR command to establish executor node parameters. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR parameters Parameter types are: ADDRESS HOST IDENTIFICATION MAXIMUM ADDRESS MAXIMUM COST MAXIMUM LINKS MAXIMUM HOPS MAXIMUM NODE COUNTERS NAME VERIFICATION For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR HELP DEFINE EXECUTOR parameter-type 3 ADDRESS Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR ADDRESS command to establish the executor node address in the network. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR ADDRESS node-address Where node-address is as described for regular nodes. For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR HELP NODE 3 IDENTIFICATION Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR IDENTIFICATION command to establish the executor node identification in the network. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR IDENTIFICATION string Where string is any string of ascii characters. If the string contains imbedded spaces or tabs the string must be enclosed in double quotes, for example: "DECNET V3.0 TEST SYSTEM". If you wish to have a double quote character in the string, you must use two double quotes (""). For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR 3 MAXIMUM Addition help is available for: MAXIMUM ADDRESS MAXIMUM COST MAXIMUM LINKS MAXIMUM HOPS MAXIMUM NODE COUNTERS 4 LINKS Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM LINKS command to establish the maximum number of links allowed on the local system. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM LINKS link-maximum Where link-maximum is decimal integer in the range 1-255. For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR 4 ADDRESS Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM ADDRESS command to establish the maximum node address that the executor node will communicate with. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM ADDRESS node-address Where node-address is as describe for regular nodes. For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR HELP NODE 4 HOPS Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM HOPS command to establish the maximum hops that a message is allowed to travel before the packet is rejected. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM HOPS number 4 COST Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM COST command to establish the maximum cost allowed over lines before the node becomes unreachable. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM COST number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-1023. For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR 4 NODE Addition help is available for: NODE COUNTERS 5 COUNTERS Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM NODE COUNTERS command to establish the number of counter blocks for information kept on traffic to nodes with logical links. This number should minimally be the maximum number of nodes to which this node will have logical links at any time. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR MAXIMUM NODE COUNTERS number where number is a number from 2 to the maximum node address for the executor. For non-routing nodes the maximum value is 32. 3 HOST Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR HOST command to establish the host node used by the executor for down-line task loads or for connects to $HOST. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR HOST node-address Where node-address is as describe for regular nodes. For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR HELP NODE 3 NAME Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR NAME command to establish the executor node's name. DEFINE EXECUTOR NODE node-name For more help use: HELP EXECUTOR HELP NODE 3 VERIFICATION Use the DEFINE EXECUTOR VERIFICATION command to enable or disable the executor's verification of access control on incoming logical link connect requests. The format is: DEFINE EXECUTOR VERIFICATION state Where state is one of: ON - Executor is to verify access control. OFF - Executor is not to verify access control. 2 LINE Use the DEFINE LINE command to establish line parameters. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id parameters DEFINE KNOWN LINES parameters Parameter types are: CONTROLLER CSR PRIORITY UNIT CSR COST SPEED URM DUPLEX STATE VECTOR MULTIPOINT TRIBUTARY For more help use: HELP LINE HELP DEFINE LINE parameter-type 3 CONTROLLER For CONTROLLER CSR help use: HELP DEFINE LINE CONTROLLER CSR 4 CSR Use the DEFINE LINE CONTROLLER CSR command to the default controller CSR for a line. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id [CONTROLLER] CSR csr-address Where csr-address is an octal number in the range 160000-177776. For more help use: HELP DEFINE LINE 3 COST Use the DEFINE LINE COST command to establish the cost associated with routing over the line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id COST number DEFINE KNOWN LINES COST number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-25. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 DUPLEX Use the DEFINE LINE DUPLEX command to define the default duplex parameter value for a line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id DUPLEX duplex-option DEFINE KNOWN LINES DUPLEX duplex-option Where the duplex option is either HALF or FULL. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 MULTIPOINT Use the DEFINE LINE MULTIPOINT command to establish multipoint polling ratios for a line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id MULTIPOINT ratio-option DEFINE KNOWN LINES MULTIPOINT ratio-option Where the ratio option is ACTIVE or DEAD. For more help use: HELP LINE HELP DEFINE LINE MULTIPOINT ratio-option 4 ACTIVE Use the DEFINE LINE MULTIPOINT ACTIVE command to establish the polling ratio for active tributaries on a multipoint line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id MULTIPOINT ACTIVE number DEFINE KNOWN LINES MULTIPOINT ACTIVE number Where the line-id identifies the tributary to which the polling ratio applies and number is a decimal integer in the range 1-255. For more help use: HELP LINE 4 DEAD Use the DEFINE LINE MULTIPOINT DEAD command to establish the polling ratio for dead tributaries on a multipoint line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id MULTIPOINT DEAD number DEFINE KNOWN LINES MULTIPOINT DEAD number Where the line-id identifies the multipoint control station to which the polling ratio applies and number is a decimal integer in the range 1-255. Note that the dead ratio applies to the entire control station and cannot be made specific to a particular tributary. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 PRIORITY Use the DEFINE LINE PRIORITY command to define the default priority value for a line. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id PRIORITY number DEFINE KNOWN LINES PRIORITY number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 4-7. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 STATE Use the DEFINE LINE STATE command to control the operational state of a line, the next time the system is loaded. The formats are: DEFINE LINE line-id STATE state DEFINE KNOWN LINES STATE state Where state is one of: ON - The line will be loaded and turned 'ON'. OFF - The line will be loaded but not turned 'ON'. CLEARED - The line will not be loaded. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 TRIBUTARY Use the DEFINE LINE TRIBUTARY command to establish the tributary address used in polling a tributary on a multipoint station. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id TRIBUTARY number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-255. 3 UNIT For UNIT CSR help use: HELP DEFINE LINE UNIT CSR 4 CSR Use the DEFINE LINE UNIT CSR command to define the default unit CSR for a line. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id UNIT CSR csr-address Where csr-address is an octal number in the range 160000-177776. For more help use: HELP DEFINE LINE 3 SPEED Use the DEFINE LINE SPEED command to define the default line speed for an asynchronous line. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id SPEED speed Where speed is a valid line speed as described in the System Manager's Guide. For more help use: HELP LINE 3 URM Use the DEFINE LINE URM command to define the unibus run mask for device controller. The unibus run mask is only allowed on RSX-11M-PUS multiprocessor systems. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id URM mask Where mask is the unibus run mask for this device, for example: [UBE,UBF] For more help use: HELP LINE 3 VECTOR Use the DEFINE LINE VECTOR command to define the default vector address for a line. The format is: DEFINE LINE line-id VECTOR vector-address Where the vector address is an octal number in the range 0-1000. For more help use: HELP LINE 2 LOGGING MONITOR Use the DEFINE LOGGING command to establish logging monitor parameters. The format is: DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR parameters Parameter types are: STATE For more help use: HELP LOGGING HELP DEFINE LOGGING parameter-type 3 STATE Use the DEFINE LOGGING STATE command to control the operation of the logging monitor. The format is: DEFINE LOGGING MONITOR STATE state Where state is one of: ON - To allow the logging monitor to log events. OFF - To prevent the logging monitor from logging events. For more help use: HELP LOGGING 2 NODE Use the DEFINE NODE command to establish node parameters. The format is: DEFINE NODE node-id parameters Parameter types are: ADDRESS NAME For more help use: HELP NODE HELP DEFINE NODE parameter-type 3 ADDRESS Use the DEFINE NODE ADDRESS command to associate a node name with a node address. The format is: DEFINE NODE node-name ADDRESS node-address Where the node name is one that is not being use for any other node. For more help use: HELP NODE 3 NAME Use the DEFINE NODE NAME command to associate a node name with a node address. The format is: DEFINE NODE node-id NAME node-name Where node-id specifies the node that is to be identified by the node name. If the node-id is a name, it must be an existing name. The new node name must not be in use to identify another node. For more help use: HELP NODE 2 OBJECT Use the DEFINE OBJECT command to establish object parameters. The format is: DEFINE OBJECT object-type parameters Parameter types are: COPIES NAME USER VERIFICATION For more help use: HELP OBJECT HELP DEFINE OBJECT parameter-type 3 COPIES Use the DEFINE OBJECT COPIES command to establish the type and number of copies allowed to run for the object. The format is: DEFINE OBJECT object-type COPIES copies Where copies is the keyword SINGLE or a decimal number in the range 1-255. The keyword SINGLE indicates that only one copy is allowed and it is not to be started using multi-copy techniques. A number indicates that multi-copy startup techniques are to be used and limits the number of simultaneous copies running. For more help use: HELP OBJECT 3 NAME Use the DEFINE OBJECT NAME command to establish the prototype task name for the object. The format is: DEFINE OBJECT object-type NAME name Where name is a standard RSX task name. For multi-copy tasks, the name should end with three dollar signs ($$$). For more help use: HELP OBJECT 3 USER Use the DEFINE OBJECT USER command to establish the user identification under which the object is to run. The format is: DEFINE OBJECT object-type USER user Where user is one of: DEFAULT - to run under the default user identification for the task. LOGIN - to run under the login user identification from the access control used to connect to the task. For more help use: HELP OBJECT 3 VERIFICATION Use the DEFINE OBJECT VERIFICATION command to establish the access control verification method for the object. The format is: DEFINE OBJECT object-type VERIFICATION verification Where verification is one of: OFF - for access control to not be verified. INSPECT - for access control to be verified the result passed to the task. ON - for access control to be verified and nothing passed to the task if verification fails. For more help use: HELP OBJECT 2 PROCESS Use the DEFINE PROCESS command to establish process parameters. The format is: DEFINE PROCESS process-name parameters Parameter types are: MAXIMUM CONTROLLERS MAXIMUM LINES STATE For more help use: HELP PROCESS HELP DEFINE PROCESS parameter-type 3 MAXIMUM Additional help is available for: MAXIMUM CONTROLLERS MAXIMUM LINES 4 CONTROLLERS Use the DEFINE PROCESS MAXIMUM CONTROLLERS command to define the number of controller databases to be stored at the end of the process. The formats are: DEFINE PROCESS process-name MAXIMUM CONTROLLERS number DEFINE KNOWN PROCESSES MAXIMUM CONTROLLERS number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-64. For more help use: HELP PROCESS 4 LINES Use the DEFINE PROCESS MAXIMUM LINES command to define the number of line databases to be stored at the end of the process. The formats are: DEFINE PROCESS process-name MAXIMUM LINES number DEFINE KNOWN PROCESSES MAXIMUM LINES number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-64. For more help use: HELP PROCESS 3 STATE Use the DEFINE PROCESS STATE command to define the default state of the process when the system is loaded. The formats are: DEFINE PROCESS process-name STATE state DEFINE KNOWN PROCESSES STATE state Where state is either ON or CLEARED. For more help use: HELP PROCESS 2 SYSTEM Use the DEFINE SYSTEM command to define the DECnet operating system parameters. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM parameters Where parameters are: LARGE BUFFER SIZE LOCATION MAXIMUM CONTROL BUFFERS MAXIMUM LARGE BUFFERS MAXIMUM SMALL BUFFERS MINIMUM RECEIVE BUFFERS POOL BYTE-AREA POOL NAME POOL PARTITION For more help use: HELP SYSTEM parameters 3 LARGE For help on large buffers type: HELP SYSTEM LARGE BUFFER SIZE 4 BUFFER For help on large buffers type: HELP SYSTEM LARGE BUFFER SIZE 5 SIZE Use the DEFINE SYSTEM LARGE BUFFER SIZE command to establish the maximum size of data blocks to be transmitted and received. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM LARGE BUFFER SIZE number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 192. to 1024.. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 3 LOCATION Use the DEFINE SYSTEM LOCATION command to establish where the network buffer pool and all processes that are automatically loaded are to placed in a dynamically created partition, such as GEN. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM LOCATION location Where location is either FIRSTFIT or TOPDOWN. NOTE - The selection of TOPDOWN will help to prevent partition fragmentation. 3 MAXIMUM Additional help is available for: MAXIMUM CONTROL BUFFERS MAXIMUM LARGE BUFFERS MAXIMUM SMALL BUFFERS 4 CONTROL For help on control buffers type: HELP DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM CONTROL BUFFERS 5 BUFFERS Use the DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM CONTROL BUFFERS command to establish the maximum number of control buffers to be allocated for the DECnet system. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM CONTROL BUFFERS number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 4-200. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 4 LARGE For help on large buffers type: HELP DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM LARGE BUFFERS 5 BUFFERS Use the DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM LARGE BUFFERS command to establish the maximum number of large buffers to be allocated for the DECnet system. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM LARGE BUFFERS number Where number is a decimal number in the range 4-200. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 4 SMALL For help on small buffers type: HELP DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM SMALL BUFFERS 5 BUFFERS Use the DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM SMALL BUFFERS command to establish the maximum number of small buffers to be allocated for the DECnet system. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM MAXIMUM SMALL BUFFERS number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1 to (# of control buffers - 1). For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 3 MINIMUM Help is available for: MINIMUM RECEIVE BUFFERS 4 RECEIVE Help is available for: MINIMUM RECEIVE BUFFERS 5 BUFFERS Use the DEFINE SYSTEM MINIMUM RECEIVE BUFFERS command to define the number of large buffers to be reserved for receives only. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM MINIMUM RECEIVE BUFFER number 3 POOL Additional help is available for: POOL BYTE-AREA POOL NAME POOL PARTITION 4 BYTE-AREA Use the DEFINE SYSTEM POOL BYTE-AREA command to define the number of bytes to be allocated to the network buffer pool, if the partition is to be dynamically allocated. The byte-area of the network pool is used for network specific data such as node definitions and object definitions. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM POOL BLOCK-AREA block-count Where block-count is a decimal integer in the range 1-1023. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 4 NAME Use the DEFINE SYSTEM POOL NAME to define the name of the network pool. If the pool does not already exist then a dynamic pool will be created from the pool partition. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM POOL NAME name Where name is 1 to 6 Rad50 characters. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 4 PARTITION Use the DEFINE SYSTEM POOL PARTITION to define the name of the dynamic partition to be used to create the network pool if the pool does not already exist. The format is: DEFINE SYSTEM POOL PARTITION partition-name Where partition-name is the name of a system controlled partition in your system such as GEN. For more help use: HELP SYSTEM 3 options: