Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

Interfaces to the DNS Database
Introducing Distributed Name Service
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DNS processes report events to the Event Management Service (EMS) primary
collector ($0); applications can retrieve these event messages by using an EMS
consumer distributor. You can find more details about EMS in the Event Management
Service (EMS) Manual.
Figure 1-4. Application Interfaces With DNS
EMS
Consumer
Distributor
EMS
Collector
($0)
Management
Application
Event
Log
DNS
Database
DNS
Name
Exporter
DNS
Name
Manager
EMS
DNS
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Commands
Responses
Event
Messages
For its query interface, a DNS database consists of a number of key-sequence files that
Enform can access to produce name reports. For more information about Enform,
refer to the ENFORM User's Guide, the ENFORM Reference Manual, and the Data
Definition Language (DDL) Reference Manual.
An application can use four Guardian 90 library procedures that convert names from
one format to another: FNAME32EXPAND, FNAME32COLLAPE,
FNAME32TOFNAME, and FNAMETOFNAME32. Refer to System Procedure Calls
Reference Manual, Volumes 1 and 2, for more details.