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ASI Facility

When configuring CA Automation Point to support VSE consoles, you can set up your hardware to use VSE's Automatic System Initialization (ASI) Facility. When you use this facility, you can configure hardware for CA Automation Point automatically by reinitializing VSE. The ASI Facility lets you redefine the system console on the supervisor parameters command so that the console device address is automatically assigned to CA Automation Point during IPL. For example, the following command sets 0F3 as the SYSLOG console address:

0F3,$$A$SUP1,P,LOG

Note: The command must be the first statement in the ASI IPL procedure.

To be controlled by CA Automation Point, a VSE console must meet the following requirements:

• The console must not be in message redisplay mode. If it is, CA Automation Point does not see any new messages and rejects most VSE commands that would otherwise be issued.
• The console must operate in non-delete mode.