1. IBM Corp.,SNA Management Services Reference, SC30-3346. Provides detailed information about SNA/MS architecture.
2. Michael O. Allen and Sandra L. Benedict, SNA Management Services Architecture for APPN Networks,IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 336?352, 1992. Describes network management architecture for APPN.
3. Robert E. Moore, Utilizing the SNA Alert in the management of multivendor networks,IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 15?31, 1988. Describes the SNA Alert and gives an overview of SNA/MS message structures, such as the Network Management Vector Transport (NMVT).
4. IBM Corp., SNA Technical Overview, GC30-3073. The capability of type 2.1 nodes to attach directly one another using peer-to-peer protocols is referred to as low-entry networking (LEN).
5. IBM Corp., SNA Management Services Reference, SC30-3346. The Common Operations Services function set provides for segmentation of certain major vectors across a series of NMVTs, thus bypassing the SSCP to PU session restriction on message length.