A minicomputer network management monitoring and analysis system using APL
Fred A. Gross, James C. Taylor · ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad · 1987
This article describes an integrated group of utilities distributed about an eleven super-minicomputer network for such purposes as mediating network-wide file backup without user intervention, centralized verification of all archival processes, centralized monitoring and analysis of network and individual node statistics, general system housekeeping, and notification of systems staff of trouble spots (particularly security and system use growth behavior). This facility uses APL (the Data General APL Interpreter AOS/VS APL™) for network control and file transfer, use of remote network node peripherals, interpretation of native files and file structures, native system logging processes, and for the creation and manipulation of APL and non-APL processes.