Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.29+, H06.07+)

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4 Managing Servers
This section describes how to manage the servers used to provide the Open System
Services (OSS) environment. Not all servers are managed through the same interface;
read the subsections Introducing the OSS Servers on page 4-1 and Configuration Files
on page 4-7 before attempting any operation on an OSS server.
The introductory information in this section helps you perform the following operations:
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Adding a Server on page 4-28
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Configuring a Server on page 4-29
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Starting a Server on page 4-36
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Obtaining Information About a Server on page 4-39
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Stopping a Server on page 4-43
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Reconfiguring a Server on page 4-46
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Removing a Server on page 4-49
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Troubleshooting a Server on page 4-50
Procedures in this section are representative. Normal practices at your site might
require additional steps or use of additional command parameters for logging
purposes.
Introducing the OSS Servers
A UNIX system depends on the operation of many demon processes that provide
services as servers. Similarly, the OSS environment is created by servers, depends on
other servers running in the Guardian environment, and runs servers within itself.
The servers that create the OSS environment were introduced in Components to Be
Managed on page 1-9. These servers are further described in the following
subsections:
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The OSS Name Servers on page 4-2
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The OSS Message-Queue Server on page 4-2
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The OSS Sockets Local Server on page 4-4
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The OSS Transport Agent Servers on page 4-4
These servers are all managed using OSS Monitor SCF commands. All SCF
commands for servers, except INFO SERVER and STATUS SERVER, can be run only
by a member of the super group (255,nnn).
Servers that run in the OSS environment are not managed through OSS Monitor SCF
commands. Such servers include network services servers such as inetd, rshd,
rexecd, and named, as discussed in The Network Services Servers and Tools on
page 4-5.
Like the OSS transport agent servers, the OSS terminal helper server processes start
automatically, as described in The Terminal Helper Servers on page 4-4. However, the
OSS terminal helper server processes have no management interface.