Motorola 6806800C08B User Manual

The following table lists and briefly describes complementary NCS services which were 
developped by Motorola. 

Further details about these services will be given in the following sections. 

The Message Distribution Service (MDS) provides high-performance, reliable message 
distribution services. NCS services and user applications invoke the services provided by MDS 
through an API which is exposed in the form of a library that can be linked to a process. MDS 
supports intra-process, inter-process as well as inter-node communication. Further details 
about MDS will be given in section 

 of this manual.  

LEAP stands for Layered Environment for Accelerated Portability. It is an operating system 
abstraction that provides portability to both NCS services and user applications from underlying 
operating system specifics and provides many value-added features. Further details are given 
in section 

 of this manual.

Distributed Trace 
Service (DTSv)

This service allows clients to direct debug information to a file for later 
analysis. 

HPI Integration Service 
(HISv)

This services allows other NCS services to access HPI events and to 
invoke a limited set of HPI functions. 

Simple Software 
Upgrade (SSU)

This service facilitates node-scoped software upgrade procedures for net-
booted and disk-bladed nodes.

System Resource 
Monitoring Service 
(SRMSv)

This service oversees system resource utilization by applications and 
notifies those applications of resource utilization events. 

Persistent Store Service 
(PSSv)

This services tracks and makes persistent, successful changed 
configuration settings accomplished through the Management Access 
Service. The stored, persistent information may be used by a component 
when it is restarted. 

Management Access 
Service (MASv)

This service provides a client with a single interface for different kinds of 
management operations. The supported management methods include 
SNMP, Command Line Interface (CLI) and XML.

Message Based 
Checkpointing Service 
(MBCSv)

This service provides message-based checkpointing between an active 
and one or more stand-by components.

Interface Service (IfSv)

This service oversees and coordinates the management and distribution 
of system-wide interface information. This includes support for virtual IP 
features and the MIB II interface group.