Open System Services NFS SCF Reference Manual

Introduction
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Attribute Specifiers
The left square bracket and right square bracket are reserved for future use as
wild-card characters.
You can also use the backslash escape character to specify the octal code for an ASCII
character; for example, \033.
In addition, if these names include any of the following characters, you must enclose the
name in quotes:
space
comma ( , )
semicolon ( ; )
ampersand (&)
Attribute Specifiers
Each OSS NFS object has an associated set of attributes. Using the ADD command you
can define the attributes of all objects except the PROCESS and SUBSYS objects.
Using the ALTER command you can alter some or all of the attributes of any object. An
attribute specifier consists of an attribute name and value. Default values exist for many
attributes. You can use the INFO command to display the current attribute values for an
object. To rename a file using the DELETE command, you also use an attribute
specifier.
The details of the required syntax for each attribute specifier you can use with OSS NFS
are described under the individual commands in Section 2, SCF Commands for OSS
NFS.
Summary States
Only the SUBSYS, PROCESS, SERVER, and LAN objects have operational states,
known as summary states. The summary state of an object at a given instant is
important because certain commands have no effect on objects when they are in one
state, but can affect the object when it is in another state. If a summary state affects the
operation of an SCF command, the effect is noted in the “Considerations” subsection of
the command description in Section 2, SCF Commands for OSS NFS.
The summary states supported by the OSS NFS subsystem are STARTING, STARTED,
STOPPING, and STOPPED:
STARTING summary state an object is being initialized and is attempting to start
STARTED summary state an object is available for service requests
STOPPING summary state an object is being stopped; no new service requests are
accepted
STOPPED summary state an object is not available for service requests