Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

The DNS Name Exporter Process
Communicating with the DNS Name Manager
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The DNS Name
Exporter Process
The DNS name exporter process is responsible for replicating DNS name definitions
from one node to another.
There are no programmatic or interactive DNS commands that directly control name
exporter operations. However, there are commands to enable and disable exports to
nodes and to inquire about export status. When DNS is started, it automatically starts
the name exporter. Likewise, when DNS is stopped in an orderly fashion, it stops the
name exporter process. For more information about how the name exporter replicates
the DNS name definitions, refer to the Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management
Operations Manual.
Running an EMS
Consumer Distributor
Before your application can retrieve event messages, you must start an Event Service
(EMS) consumer distributor process, open this process for SPI communication, and
specify the source of event messages with an EMS CONTROL command. The Event
Management Service (EMS) Manual provides full details.
To avoid receiving all event messages from all subsystems, install a filter to select only
the messages your application needs to act upon. You install your filter when you
start the consumer distributor. Filters are written in the EMS filter language, which is
described in the Event Management Service (EMS) Manual.