NCL Concepts › NCL Processes and the Remote Operator Facility (ROF)

NCL Processes and the Remote Operator Facility (ROF)

The concepts of NCL operation discussed so far have covered execution of processes within the NCL processing region of the user, in the system where the user is physically logged on.

ROF lets a user, who is logged on in one system, route commands to other systems for execution. The results of these commands are then returned to the originating user.

ROF also allows a command to be routed to one system for onward propagation to another system where the command is to be actually executed.

Since ROF provides services at a command level, NCL processes (which can issue commands) are also entitled to use ROF services to route commands to a remote system and retrieve the results.