Application Instrumentation and Control (AIC) API, Version 1.0
Copyright © 1999 The Open Group

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Open Group Technical Standard
Application Instrumentation and Control (AIC) API Version 1.0
Document Number: C910
ISBN: 1-85912-276-0

• Frontmatter
  • Preface
    • The Open Group
    • Development of Product Standards
    • Open Group Publications
    • Versions and Issues of Specifications
    • Corrigenda
    • Ordering Information
    • This Document
    • Typographical Conventions
  • Trademarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Referenced Documents
• Introduction
  • Objectives
  • Key Principles
  • Functionality Highlights
• Intended Use of AIC
  • Complex Data Types
  • Business Sensitive Information
  • AIC vs RPC
  • Interoperability
    • Swapping Implementations
    • Transport is Proprietary
    • Platform Support and Interoperation
  • Scalability
  • General Purpose API
• Version Compatibility
  • Objectives
  • National Language and Character Set Support (I18n)
• AIC Functional Components
  • Architecture of AIC
  • Functional Overview: AIC-AL
  • Functional Overview: AIC-CL
  • Functional Overview: AIC Host Services
  • Summary: Enterprise use of AIC
    • Footnotes
• Data Types
  • Character Strings
  • Fixed-Point Binary Numbers
  • Floating-Point Numbers
  • Date/Time Values
• Object Naming Conventions
  • Object Naming Conventions
    • Formal Tree Structure
    • Cross Machine Naming
  • Naming Convention Rules
  • Federated Process Naming
  • Naming Scheme in a Large Enterprise
    • Footnotes
• Fundamental Management Object
  • AIC Managed Objects
    • Properties of any Management Object
    • Registered Functions against a Management Object
  • Standard Management Objects
• AIC-AL Function and Use
• AIC Host Services
  • Overview
  • Name Service Server
  • Unique Name Generator
    • Rules for Assigning Names
    • Rules for Re-Assigning Names
  • Internal Heartbeat Mechanism
  • Management Framework Gateway
    • Application Event Submission to a Management Environment
    • Publishing Objects to a Management Environment
  • Swappable Security Component
  • Object Cache
  • Alarm Logging
    • Footnotes
• AIC Security
  • Security Component
    • AIC Client Library (AIC-CL)
    • AIC Host Service: Security Component (Swappable Module)
  • Security Authorization Overview
  • Semantics of Security Checks
• AIC Events
• AIC API Overview
  • AIC AL Functions
    • Starting and Stopping the AIC-AL Library
    • Creation and Deletion of Management Objects
    • AIC AL Set Functions
    • AIC AL Get Functions
    • Registration of Polling/Threshold/DoAction Functions
    • Strategies for Updating Management Objects
    • Sending Alarms from an Application
  • Library Wide Functions
    • Context
    • Dynamic Query Functions
  • AIC CL Functions
    • AIC CL Administration Calls
    • Setting Security for CL Set Functions
• API Definitions
  • Introduction
    • Function Naming Conventions
    • Debugging and Error Reporting
  • Summary of Calls and Availability in AL and CL
  • Function Call Definitions
  • AICCL_ChangeServicesLogging
  • AIC_ChgTimeStmp
  • AICAL_Close, AICCL_Close
  • AICAL_Create
  • AICCL_ServicesShutdown
  • AICCL_ServicesStatisticsReset
  • AICAL_DeleteObject
  • AICAL_DoAction, AICCL_DoAction
  • AICAL_Dump, AICCL_Dump
  • AICCL_FlushAppCacheToFile
  • AIC_FreeMemory
  • AIC_GetAllAttributes
  • AICCL_GetAppInfo
  • AIC_GetBusinessDateAndTimeT
  • AIC_GetBusinessDateAndTimeV
  • AIC_GetBusinessDoubleT
  • AIC_GetBusinessDoubleV
  • AIC_GetBusinessLongT
  • AIC_GetBusinessLongV
  • AIC_GetBusinessVarChar
  • AIC_GetDateTime
  • AIC_GetEnumeratedValue
  • AIC_GetLocationInStructure
  • AIC_GetNextObject
  • AIC_GetRegFunctions
  • AICCL_GetRegFunctions, AICAL_GetRegFunctions
  • AICAL_/AICCL_GetSecurityDoAction
  • AICAL_GetSecurityGet, AICCL_GetSecurityGet
  • AICAL_GetSecuritySet, AICCL_GetSecuritySet
  • AICAL_GetSemantics, AICCL_GetSemantics
  • AICAL_GetStatus, AICCL_GetStatus
  • AICCL_/AICAL_GetThreshSemantics
  • AICAL_/AICCL_GetThresholdDateAndTime
  • AICAL_/AICCL_GetThresholdDouble
  • AICAL_/AICCL_GetThresholdLong
  • AICAL_/AICCL_GetValueDateAndTime
  • AICAL_GetValueDouble, AICCL_GetValueDouble
  • AICAL_GetValueLong, AICCL_GetValueLong
  • AICAL_GetValueVarChar, AICCL_GetValueVarChar
  • AICAL_GetVisibility, AICCL_GetVisibility
  • AIC_IsTimeStmpNull
  • AICAL_LibStart
  • AICAL_List, AICCL_List
  • AICAL_QueryObjectType, AICCL_QueryObjectType
  • AICAL_RaiseEvent
  • AICAL_RegDoAction
  • AICAL_RegPollSetValue
  • AICAL_RegThresholdFunction
  • AICCL_RequestServicesStatistics
  • AIC_SetLevel
  • AIC_SetLogFileName
  • AICAL_SetPollingTime
  • AICCL_SetReceiveTimeOut
  • AICAL_/AICCL_SetSecurityDoAction
  • AICAL_SetSecurityGet, AICCL_SetSecurityGet
  • AICAL_SetSecuritySet, AICCL_SetSecuritySet
  • AICAL_SetSemantics
  • AICAL_SetStatus, AICCL_SetStatus
  • AICAL_SetThreshSemantics
  • AICAL_/AICCL_SetThresholdDateAndTime
  • AICAL_/AICCL_SetThresholdDouble
  • AICAL_/AICCL_SetThresholdLong
  • AIC_SetTimeStmp
  • AIC_SetTimeStmpNull
  • AICCL_SetUserCredentials
  • AICAL_/AICCL_SetValueDateAndTime
  • AICAL_SetValueDouble, AICCL_SetValueDouble
  • AICAL_SetValueLong, AICCL_SetValueLong
  • AICAL_SetValueVarChar, AICCL_SetValueVarChar
  • AICAL_SetVisibility, AICCL_SetVisibility
  • AIC_TimeStmpCmp
  • AIC_TimeStmpToStr
  • AIC_ToScreen
  • AICAL_Traverse, AICCL_Traverse
• C Language Header File
• Futures
  • Language Bindings
  • WBEM Integration
  • Relationship Service
  • Operations Support
    • Footnotes
• Glossary
  • AIC
  • AIC CL
  • AIC AL
  • CIM
  • DMTF
  • DNS
  • DoAction
  • FAT
  • Tree
  • UFS
  • WBEM
• INDEX

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