SCOadmin Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

• About this book
  • How this book is organized
  • Typographical conventions
  • How can we improve this book?
• Chapter 1: SCOadmin system administration architecture
  • Purpose of the SCOadmin environment
  • SCOadmin architectural overview
    • SCO Visual Tcl
    • The SCOadmin services library
    • The SCOadmin framework
      • Networked object facility
• Chapter 2: Writing a SCOadmin manager
  • Using the SCOadmin manager template
  • Starting the manager
    • Top level error trap
    • Local host name
    • Managed host name
    • Help book
  • Building the main form
    • Dimensions, borders, and alignment
    • Main window label and title
    • Menu bar
      • Host menu
      • View menu
      • Options menu
      • Help menu
    • Tool bar
    • Status bar and point help
    • Main list
  • Entering the main procedure
    • Authorization
  • Processing errors
  • Using secondary dialogs
    • Two-lists
    • Dialog boxes
  • Navigating in character mode
  • Using print controls
  • Exiting the application
  • Productization and installation
    • Adding managers to the SCOadmin hierarchy
    • Localizing your manager
    • Productizing your manager
  • About SCOadmin error handling
  • About SCOadmin objects
    • Object call example
    • Remote object calls
• Chapter 3: Designing SCOadmin object service agents
  • OSAs and the Server API
  • Creating class definition tables
    • Attribute definition table (ADT)
    • Operation definition table (ODT)
    • Group definition table (GDT)
    • Subordinates definition table (SDT)
    • Binding class definitions to the Object API
  • Defining execution procedures
    • Application procedures
      • Attribute operations
      • Object operations
      • Action operations
    • Filter procedures
    • List procedures
    • Helper procedures
  • BMIP request processor
    • Synchronization
    • Advanced scoping
    • Implementation
  • Containment and scoping
  • Return values
    • Return Value Structures
    • Error management policy
      • Error checking
    • Execution procedure data structures
      • Library functions
  • Example tables and procedures
    • Example Attribute Definition Tables (ADT)
    • Example Operation Definition Tables (ODT)
    • Example Group Definition Tables (GDT)
    • Example Subordinates Definition Tables (SDT)
    • Example Class Definition Tables (CDT)
    • Example helper functions and procedures (C/C++)
    • Example helper functions and procedures (Tcl)
    • Example request processors
• Appendix A: Using the SCOadmin internationalization facility
  • Understanding message catalogs
  • Creating a module ID declaration file
    • Module ID format
    • Module ID file format
  • Creating a message specification file (*.msg)
    • Message ID naming
    • Message file format
  • Compiling a message file
  • Compiling message catalogs into your application
• Appendix B: Creating context-sensitive help
  • Dumping the widget sums
  • Creating a help book
  • Creating the hook file
  • Adding a help book to the system
  • Testing your help book