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Chapter 5

TCAP Management API

This chapter provides a detailed description of the primitives (requests and responses) that comprise the TCAP management API.
Unlike the TCAP transaction API, which sends and receives messages asynchronously, each management API call generates a request followed immediately by a response from the TX Series board. This API blocks the calling application waiting for this response (typically a few hundred milliseconds) and returns an indication as to whether or not an action was completed successfully. For this reason it is expected that the management API will typically be employed by one or more management applications, separate from the applications utilizing the transaction API. The management API is packaged as a separate library with its own interface header files.

The following management API files are provided with the TCAP distribution disk. File Description ss7type.h Basic data types employed by the TCAP API. tcapmapi.h Structures, constants, and function prototypes described in this section. libtcapm.a Static library to link with user application (Unix only). tcapmapi.lib Import library to link with user application (Windows NT only). tcapmapi.dll Dynamic link library automatically linked to application (Windows NT only)

File	Description
`ss7type.h`	Basic data types employed by the TCAP API.
`tcapmapi.h`	Structures, constants, and function prototypes described in this section.
`libtcapm.a`	Static library to link with user application (Unix only).
`tcapmapi.lib`	Import library to link with user application (Windows NT only).
`tcapmapi.dll`	Dynamic link library automatically linked to application (Windows NT only)

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