Point-to-Point Switching Service Developer's Reference Manual

P/N 6425-12

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About This Manual

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1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction
1.2 About Point-to-Point Switching
1.3 About CT Access
1.4 Setting Up the CT Access Environment
1.4.1 Initializing CT Access
1.4.2 Creating Event Queues and CTA Contexts
1.4.3 Opening Services
1.5 Using Point-to-Point Switching in a CT Access Application
1.6 The Point-to-Point Switching Server
1.7 Using the PPX Server on Windows NT
1.7.1 Controlling the PPX Server Manually
1.7.2 Using the PPX Server as a Windows NT Service
1.7.3 Starting and Stopping the PPX Server
1.7.4 Removing the PPX Server from Windows NT Services
1.8 Using the PPX Server on UNIX
1.8.1 Starting the PPX Server
1.8.2 Stopping the PPX Server
1.9 Using the PPX Initialization Error Log
1.10 SWI Error Logging
1.10.1 An Example ppxswi.log

2 Using Point-to-Point Switching

2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Point-to-Point Switching Terminology
2.1.2 Properties of Connections and Listeners
2.2 Point-to-Point Switching Connection Object
2.2.1 Creating a Connection
2.2.2 Setting the Talker for a Connection
2.2.3 Adding Listeners to a Connection
2.2.4 Removing Listeners from a Connection
2.2.5 Setting the Silence Pattern for a Connection
2.2.6 Opening a Connection
2.2.7 Closing a Connection
2.2.8 Destroying a Named Connection
2.3 Making One-Talker, One-Listener Connections
2.3.1 Making a Simplex Connection
2.3.2 Making a Duplex Connection
2.3.3 Making a Quad Connection
2.3.4 Disconnecting a Talker and a Listener
2.4 Restoring Initial Connections
2.5 Connection Transactions
2.5.1 Cancelling a Begin/Submit Transaction
2.6 Terminating a Point-to-Point Switching Client
2.7 Error Processing
2.8 PPX Hot Swap Support
2.8.1 Configuration for Unpopulated CompactPCI Slots
2.8.2 Client Connections
2.8.3 Switch Disabled Error
2.8.4 Switching Service Log Support

3 Specifying the Switch Configuration

3.1 Introduction
3.2 PPX Configuration File
3.2.1 Switch Fabric
3.3 Defining the Switch Fabric
3.4 Switch Fabric Attributes
3.5 Defining the Telephony Bus
3.5.1 Defining Multiple Independent Buses
3.5.2 Reserving Bus Streams and Timeslots
3.6 Defining a Board
3.6.1 Defining a Board With a Switch
3.6.2 Defining a Board Without a Switch
3.7 Specifying Switch Connections
3.8 Example PPX Configuration File

4 Function Summary

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Using Connection Objects
4.3 Making One-Talker, One-Listener Connections
4.4 Working With Groups of Connections
4.5 Restoring Switch Configuration
4.6 PPX Server's Runtime Database

5 Alphabetical Function Reference

5.1 Introduction
ppxAddListeners
ppxBegin
ppxBeginCancel
ppxCloseConnection
ppxConnect
ppxCreateConnection
ppxDestroyNamedConnection
ppxDisconnect
ppxOpenConnection
ppxRemoveListeners
ppxRestoreConnections
ppxSetDefaultPattern
ppxSetTalker
ppxShowDB
ppxSubmit

6 Demonstration Programs and Utilities

6.1 Introduction
6.2 Board to Board Program: brd2brd
6.3 Call Center Program: callcntr
6.4 Switching Shell: swish
6.5 Show Switch Connections: showcx95
6.6 Service Configuration Utility: ppxservicecfg

Appendix A Glossary

Appendix B Errors and Events

Introduction
Error Summary
Events

Appendix C Sample PPX Configuration File

Introduction

Appendix D PPX Configuration File Syntax

Introduction
PPX Configuration File Syntax

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