Actually each of those methods is an executable you can call at the command
line. nvserverd is linked with the EIF libraries from TEC so it uses the
TEC routines directly, such as tec_create_handle, which establishes a
session, and tec_put_event, which actually sends the buffer we have
formatted. I cannot tell you what postemsg and wpostemesg do under the
covers. That's a TEC question and I have not the expertise to answer it.
But anyone wishing to write his or her own TEC adapter can obtain the EIF
libraries and do the same kind of thing. TEC used to encourage it and at
one time they had classes you could attend on writing such code.
James Shanks
Team Leader, Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
From: owner-nv-l@tkg.com (darrell.singleton@att.net)
Date: 20/02/2001 17:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [NV-L] The Forwarding Mechanism (wpostemsg or wasync or what ?) to
TEC
What else can there be but postemsg and wpostemsg???
Unless something is happening we don't know about it has
to be one of the two and the TEC Adapter should be using
one or the other. If the machine is not an endpoint or
managed node I would suspect it uses postemsg as it
can't get to oserv. I don't know how smart the TEC
Adapter is and if it detects if it should use one or the
other. Then again maybe it does something else
completely.
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