Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

Programmatic Commands
Introduction
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Management Functions
Provided
Using the set of programmatic commands defined to operate on the DNS
programmatic objects, DNS provides your application with the capability to do the
following:
Add and delete object names, type names, and other names to a DNS database
Alter certain characteristics (attributes), object names, object types, and other
definitions in a DNS database
Obtain information about the current attributes of definitions in the database such
as processes, files, and groups
Obtain a list of currently defined subsystem objects of a given type or a list of
nodes included in a domain
Stop and reactivate a DNS name manager process
Enable and disable the name-exporter
Obtain information about the openers of a DNS process
Obtain status information about the subsystem, its export process, and other
processes
Obtain information about the product name and release version of the DNS
subsystem and its components
Make locally alterable copies of name definitions replicated from other network
systems and delete such copies when they are no longer needed
Comparing Interactive and
Programmatic Commands
DNS commands are available in interactive form (through DNSCOM) and in
programmatic form (as SPI messages). Table 1-1 shows the correspondence between
the DNSCOM interactive commands and the programmatic commands sent by
management applications as SPI messages.
To make the comparison between the two kinds of commands clear, the table uses the
command and object names in the full form that you must use in programs. Later in
this manual, in text and in the headings for the command descriptions, the DNS
commands and object types may appear in a shortened form (without the ZDNS-
CMD- and ZDNS-OBJ- prefixes).