OSI Troubleshooting Guide, May 1997

84 Chapter 3

Using OSI and OTS Tools

Updating OTS: otsupdate

Chapter 5 of the OSI Transport Services manual describes many OTS

conﬁguration parameters as being “dynamic.” This means that you may

change the values of these parameters and have them take effect while

OTS/9000 is up and running. Non-dynamic parameters take effect only

after the system has been rebooted.

After changing dynamic parameters with osiadmin or any ASCII editor,

use the otsupdate command to cause the changes to take effect. If

you’ve changed a non-dynamic parameter, the update process will not

allow any updates to occur. The update process is very sensitive to the

changing of non-dynamic parameters. For example, deleting and

re-adding a local subnetwork (even with exactly the same values) could

cause the update process to fail.

NOTE If changing parameters with osiadmin, you can restrict your updates to

dynamic parameters only by setting the update mode to dynamic (D).

In general, parameters dealing with protocol layer operation (for

example, timers), and parameters dealing with remote addressing (for

example, destinations and routes) can be updated using otsupdate.

For additional information, see the manpage for otsupdate.