This section provides basic information about how to develop and use Single Point Autoaction Message System (SP-AMS) to automate your MCP and UNIX system and ClearPath Enterprise Systems OS 2200 Autoaction Message System (CP-AMS) to automate your ClearPath Enterprise Systems servers.
Subsection 1.1 describes the relationship of SP-AMS and CP-AMS to Operations Sentinel.
Subsection 1.2 defines key elements of autoaction databases: patterns, message-matching criteria, actions, variables, and expressions.
Subsection 1.3 describes components of patterns and how to optimize the efficiency of pattern matching.
Subsection 1.4 describes the types of actions you can include in an autoaction database.
Subsection 1.5 introduces five utilities: Autoaction Database Manager (ADBM), Build Autoaction Database (BADB), Dump Autoaction Database (DADB), Verify Autoaction Database (VADB), and Distribute. Use these utilities to create and update autoaction databases, test and distribute databases, and retrieve the source code of a database if the source code becomes corrupted or is lost.
Throughout this guide, the term AMS is used for information that applies to both SP‑AMS and CP-AMS. Details relevant to only SP-AMS or CP-AMS are identified using the specific feature name inside brackets for example, [CP-AMS]. These can appear in headings, lists, and page headers, and identify information that applies only to the specific feature listed in the brackets.